ICT-enabled Self-management of Chronic Diseases and Conditions

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    Professional and Peer Social Support-Oriented mHealth App: A Platform for Adolescents with Depressive Symptomatology
    ( 2022-01-04) Gilani, Sayyida Masoom ; Tanvy, Angeline ; Pasha, Muhammad Fermi ; Thanzami, Vanlal
    Adolescent depression has been increasing worldwide and often there are no available platforms to support them. Being one of the largest age groups of smartphone users, we investigate and implement an extension framework for mobile health (mHealth) applications to alleviate depressive symptomatology and elevate psychological well-being in adolescents. In this paper, we discuss the design and development of incorporating and integrating social support provided by professionals and peers and its effective role in a mobile context.
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    Diagnosing Patients and Recommending mHealth Technology? Exploring Physicians' Intention to Influence Patients' Use of Self-Health Management Technology
    ( 2022-01-04) Hah, Hyeyoung ; Lerouge, Cynthia
    This paper introduces a new type of IT role, IT influencers. We define IT influencers as persons whose decision-making is critical but who do not directly use the focal technology. Then we contextualize the social role of IT influencers within the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) framework to explore the conditions under which such individuals demonstrate IT-directed social behavior, termed intention to influence and become a social influence upon the targeted user’s technology use. We look at physicians, as IT influencers, and chronic diabetic patients, as IT users, who work together to promote patients' self-management of chronic diabetes using mobile health (mHealth) technology. The results demonstrated that physicians' evaluation of both IT and patients' technical ability led to intention to influence patients' use of mHealth technology. Furthermore, intent to influence is promoted in a social context in which supporting resources are available for both IT users.
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