Designing an Artifact to Empower Chronic Patients for Monitoring Health During a Pandemic: A COVID-19 Screening App
56th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2023
; 2023-January:3326-3335, 2023.
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| Scopus | ID: covidwho-2297253
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Chronic diseases have been declared as an invisible epidemic by the World Health Organization (WHO, 2005). Over the past fifty years, the prevalence of chronic conditions has increased, leading to the disease burden caused by cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, musculoskeletal conditions, and mental and substance use disorders (DOH, 2021). Chronic patients need to reimagine how they will empower themselves to effectively manage and monitor their health and wellbeing in a COVID-19 era, when frequent in-person health care visits will no longer be feasible. In this study, we propose the features for the design of a mobile based application that will aid chronic patients and end-users to self-manage and monitor their health during the pandemic era. Based on an empirical investigation involving pharmacists and researchers, we designed and developed a prototype capable of empowering chronic patients. This study particularly focuses on how technological interventions can help chronic patients to self-manage and monitor their health and wellbeing related to COVID-19 where the user expectations are met with less attrition rates. © 2023 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved.
Chronic patients; COVID-19; digital interventions; m-Health; medical literacy; Self-management; Self-tracking; Diagnosis; mHealth; Patient monitoring; Patient treatment; Chronic conditions; Chronic disease; Chronic patient; Digital intervention; Disease burdens; Self management; Wellbeing; World Health Organization
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56th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2023
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