The self-management of chronic illnesses: Theories and technologies

Torsi, Silvia; Wright, Peter; Mountain, Gail; Nasr, Nasrin; Mawson, Sue; Rosser, Benjamin A.

doi:10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth2010.8914

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“…[9], promoting health education in children [10], and for changing existing social beliefs and health practices of rural women in a positive manner [11].…”

Section: Related Research In Persuasive Healthcarementioning

confidence: 99%

Using Persuasive Recommendations in Wellness Applications based upon User Activities

Mukhtar¹

2016

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Abstract-Recently, a large number of mobile wellness applications have emerged for assisting users in self-monitoring of daily food intake and physical activities. While such applications are in abundance, many research surveys have found that the users soon give them up after giving some initial try. This article presents our application for healthcare self-management that monitors users' activities but -unlike the existing applicationsit focuses on keeping the users engaged for self-management. The distinguishing feature of our application is that it uses persuasive mechanisms to help users adopt healthy behavior. For this purpose, users' various activities are monitored and then they are persuaded using different persuasion strategies that are adaptive and are according to their behavior.For each user, a behavior model is created that is based on Fogg's behavior model but, in addition, it also holds within it user preferences, and user health profile. The behavior model is then used to create a persuasion profile of the user that allows us to propose personalized suggestions targeted to overcome his lacking behavior. We also describe a case study that describes the actual application.

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“…[9], promoting health education in children [10], and for changing existing social beliefs and health practices of rural women in a positive manner [11].…”

Section: Related Research In Persuasive Healthcarementioning

confidence: 99%

Using Persuasive Recommendations in Wellness Applications based upon User Activities

Mukhtar¹

2016

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“…Therefore, the world is facing a critical issue: to lower or defer incidence rates of chronic disease and to solve issues related to long-term care. Numerous studies have indicated that behaviour change is the most effective precaution and self-care method for chronic patients [2][3][4]. Although patient behaviour changes seem to be very personal, family caregivers' acknowledgement of patients' positive behaviour changes could effectively enhance the quality of patient self-care.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Interactive Health Caregivers System for Diabetic Patients

2016

Proceedings of 2016 the 6th International Workshop on Computer Science and Engineering

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To reinforce the mutual healthcare communication between diabetic patients and caregivers, we designed and implemented a novel Interactive Health Caregivers System (IHCS) with push-pull operations. This system is expected to improve the self-care quality of diabetic patients. IHCS located in a GPRS environment could establish the mutual communication between medical communication medical devices and caregivers, thereby creating a healthcare system based on push-pull operations. This study adopted the push-pull technique for controlling signals, actively turning on medical devices, and performing mobile healthcare functions that are authorized by users. This system, with numerous enhanced functions specifically designed for healthcare purposes, could respond to many emergent scenarios. The proposed IHCS was built by making use of existing medical devices (e.g., GPRS blood glucose meter) and coupled with the integration with cloud platforms and telecare Android apps.

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“…The Self-Management of a chronic condition implies a shifting of responsibility from the Healthcare professional to the patient, who is actively involved in facing the different aspects of his illness and in engaging in behaviors that improve his health conditions (Torsi et al, 2010). This paper is focused on a process of Participatory Design (Blythe et al, 2002) between Health and Social Care researchers, chronically ill patients and designers of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and it is in particularly based on stroke, heart failure, diabetes and chronic pain conditions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In a previous publication (Torsi et al, 2010), some theories that explain different strategies by which a chronically ill patient can self-manage his condition are gathered and fully described. Such as, the Self-Efficacy, the Transtheoretical Model, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Activity Pacing.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is based on the tenets that bad feelings are part of the individual and that therefore it is counterproductive to try to reject them. Activity Pacing is a cognitive behavioral strategy in order to cope with chronic pain while planning everyday activities while balancing between activity and pain and making a little less when pain is absent and a little more when it occurs, thus preventing discontinuous patterns of activity (Torsi, 2010). Our hypothesis is that those theories of Self-Management can be considered as cognitive artifacts in order to face chronic illness and to live with them.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Self-Management System for Chronically Ill Patients

Torsi

2014

International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare

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This article describes the User Centered Design Process for providing chronically ill patients tools to better self-manage their conditions. Stroke, congestive heart failure and chronic pain are complex conditions in which regulated physical activity can provide real improvement of symptoms and health conditions. In particular the work is focused on how the authors gathered the guidelines from the patients, how they translated them into interface design and how did the patients react to the paper prototypes. Paper prototyping is a quick, inexpensive and easily modifiable way to create intermediate artifacts that can be iteratively modified by early evaluation with intended users.

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The self-management of chronic illnesses: Theories and technologies

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Using Persuasive Recommendations in Wellness Applications based upon User Activities

Using Persuasive Recommendations in Wellness Applications based upon User Activities

An Interactive Health Caregivers System for Diabetic Patients

A Self-Management System for Chronically Ill Patients

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