Technologies for Participatory Wellbeing

2016 ◽  
pp. 59-80
Author(s):  
Serena Barello ◽  
Julia Menichetti ◽  
Guendalina Graffigna
Keyword(s):  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Consumer Health ◽  
Positive Interventions ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
Life Functioning ◽  
Technological Interventions

The participatory health revolution is shaping consumers' health behaviors that are increasingly influence by people's desire to play an active role in promoting a positive life functioning. Technologies are addressing the emerging needs of the participatory health, as they favor a proactive users' attitude. This chapter describes the results of a software-assisted quali-quantitative study aimed at exploring the scientific debate about technological interventions for wellbeing in the era of participatory health. Based on the study's results, technologies for wellbeing in the participatory health era may be clustered depending on the “context of delivery,” on their degree of personalization,” and on their inner “conceptualization of positive interventions”. According to a consumer health engagement perspective, those technologies are not mutually exclusive but can coexist based on the specific wellness needs and health engagement expectations of their users.

Technologies for Participatory Wellbeing

2017 ◽  
pp. 62-84
Author(s):  
Serena Barello ◽  
Julia Menichetti ◽  
Guendalina Graffigna
Keyword(s):  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Consumer Health ◽  
Positive Interventions ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
Life Functioning ◽  
Technological Interventions

The participatory health revolution is shaping consumers' health behaviors that are increasingly influence by people's desire to play an active role in promoting a positive life functioning. Technologies are addressing the emerging needs of the participatory health, as they favor a proactive users' attitude. This chapter describes the results of a software-assisted quali-quantitative study aimed at exploring the scientific debate about technological interventions for wellbeing in the era of participatory health. Based on the study's results, technologies for wellbeing in the participatory health era may be clustered depending on the “context of delivery,” on their degree of personalization,” and on their inner “conceptualization of positive interventions”. According to a consumer health engagement perspective, those technologies are not mutually exclusive but can coexist based on the specific wellness needs and health engagement expectations of their users.

Evaluating the user-perceived benefit of a virtual patient education and support community: LVNG With Lung Cancer.

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (28_suppl) ◽  
pp. 92-92
Author(s):  
Mona L. Martin ◽  
Kristin Bucklen ◽  
Lise J. Hall ◽  
Beth Sandy ◽  
Dann Wonser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Cancer Information ◽  
Perceived Benefit

92 Background: The accessibility and quality of network support for people living with lung cancer (PLW) and their support partners (SP) can vary. Virtual platforms provide a unique opportunity for PLW/SP peer support and disease education; the challenge is to measure impact. Methods: Our aim was to determine user-perceived benefit of the Facebook-based virtual community LVNG With Lung Cancer ( https://www.facebook.com/LVNGWithLungCancerUS ). Qualitative interviews were conducted with community members aged ≥18 yrs and living with lung cancer or actively supporting someone who had lung cancer. Also, inbound community comments (Dec 2015–Oct 2016) were retrospectively analyzed and grouped by similarity of content. Results: 18 PLW and 2 SP were interviewed (N = 20, saturation of concept met within the first 10). Mean yrs since diagnosis was 2.75 (range 0.08–17). Of the total expressions of benefit (n = 513) made during the interviews, 32% focused on increased health knowledge, with most participants calling out cancer information, good health behaviors, and coping strategies as key community benefits. Social impacts of the community accounted for 28% of benefit expressions; having a forum to share experiences and having a supportive environment were most frequently cited. An additional 18% of benefit expressions revealed that the community gives members feelings of empowerment, including feeling less alone (55% of respondents) and feeling inspired to help others (40% of respondents). Benefits received from community membership led to behavioral change in many respondents: 55% asked their doctor more questions, 50% shared helpful experiences with other members, and 35% took a more active role in their healthcare. In a notable example, an SP member said the community provided her with the knowledge she needed to address her symptoms and fears with her doctor, who was hesitant to biopsy because she did not meet typical risk criteria. Her self-advocacy was successful and ultimately led to an early lung cancer diagnosis. Results from the retrospective analysis of actual postings (n = 24,336; all unique users during evaluation period: n = 12,187) reflected the themes patients offered during interviews as important reasons to participate: 63% of postings were asking for or sharing cancer information, 98% provided emotional support and/or understanding, and 84% were inspirational/optimistic. Conclusions: This dual approach of assessing real-world impact of a virtual Facebook community provided insight into the benefit that members derive and highlighted the integral role of support groups in patient-centric care. Importantly, once members’ emotional and educational needs were met, they were empowered and/or inspired to take positive actions leading to better health behaviors and increased quality of life – an outcome that may have wider applicability for diseases beyond lung cancer.

Persuasive technology for health and wellness: State-of-the-art and emerging trends

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Orji ◽  
Karyn Moffatt
Keyword(s):  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Design Research ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Persuasive Technology ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Motivational Strategies ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Technological Interventions ◽  
And Behavior

The evolving field of persuasive and behavior change technology is increasingly targeted at influencing behavior in the area of health and wellness. This paper provides an empirical review of 16 years (85 papers) of literature on persuasive technology for health and wellness to: (1.) answer important questions regarding the effectiveness of persuasive technology for health and wellness, (2.) summarize and highlight trends in the technology design, research methods, motivational strategies, theories, and health behaviors targeted by research to date, (3.) uncover pitfalls of existing persuasive technological interventions for health and wellness, and (4.) suggest directions for future research.

scholarly journals The Outcomes of Scientific Debates Should Be Published: The Arivale Story

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 1070-1075
Author(s):  
Clare Fiala ◽  
Eleftherios P Diamandis
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
The Other ◽  
Consumer Health ◽  
Biotechnology Company ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
P4 Medicine ◽  
Direct To Consumer ◽  
Testing Strategies ◽  
Scientific Debates

Abstract There is an ongoing scientific debate regarding the merits and shortcomings of P4 Medicine (predictive, preventive, personalized, and participatory) and O4 Medicine (overtesting, overdiagnosis, overtreatment, and overcharging). P4 Medicine promises to revolutionize scientific wellness through longitudinal big data collection, denoted as “dense phenotyping,” which could uncover early, actionable signs of disease, thus allowing earlier interventions and possible disease reversal. On the other hand, O4 Medicine draws attention to the potential side effects of P4 Medicine: overtesting, overdiagnosis, overtreatment, and overcharging fees. Preliminary data from the P4 Medicine concept have been recently published. A novel biotechnology company, Arivale, provided customers with services based on P4 Medicine principles; however it could not sustain its operations and closed its doors in April 2019. In this report, we provide our own insights as to why Arivale failed. While we do not discount that in the future, improved testing strategies may provide a path to better health, we suggest that until the evidence is provided, selling of such products to the public, especially through the “direct to consumer” approach, should be discouraged. We hope that our analysis will provide useful information for the burgeoning fields of personalized medicine, preventive medicine, and direct to consumer health testing.

Evaluating the user-perceived benefit of a virtual lung cancer patient education and support community: LVNG With Lung Cancer.

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e24102-e24102
Author(s):  
Mona L. Martin ◽  
Kristin Bucklen ◽  
Lise J. Hall ◽  
Beth Sandy ◽  
Dann Wonser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Cancer Information ◽  
Perceived Benefit

e24102 Background: The accessibility and quality of network support for people living with lung cancer (PLW) and their support partners (SP) can vary. Virtual platforms provide a unique opportunity for PLW/SP peer support and disease education; the challenge is to measure impact. Methods: Our aim was to determine user-perceived benefit of the Facebook based virtual community LVNG With Lung Cancer ( https://www.facebook.com/LVNGWithLungCancerUS ). Qualitative interviews were conducted with community members aged ≥18 yrs and living with lung cancer or actively supporting someone who had lung cancer. Also, inbound community comments (Dec 2015–Oct 2016) were retrospectively analyzed and grouped by similarity of content. Results: 18 PLW and 2 SP were interviewed (N = 20, saturation of concept met within the first 10). Mean yrs since diagnosis was 2.75 (range 0.08–17). Of the total expressions of benefit (n = 513) made during the interviews, 32% focused on increased health knowledge, with most participants calling out cancer information, good health behaviors, and coping strategies as key community benefits. Social impacts of the community accounted for 28% of benefit expressions; having a forum to share experiences and having a supportive environment were most frequently cited. An additional 18% of benefit expressions revealed that the community gives members feelings of empowerment, including feeling less alone (55% of respondents) and feeling inspired to help others (40% of respondents). Benefits received from community membership led to behavioral change in many respondents: 55% asked their doctor more questions, 50% shared helpful experiences with other members, and 35% took a more active role in their healthcare. In a notable example, an SP member said the community provided her with the knowledge she needed to address her symptoms and fears with her doctor, who was hesitant to biopsy because she did not meet typical risk criteria. Her self-advocacy was successful and ultimately led to an early lung cancer diagnosis. Results from the retrospective analysis of actual postings (n = 24,336; all unique users during evaluation period: n = 12,187) reflected the themes patients offered during interviews as important reasons to participate: 63% of postings were asking for or sharing cancer information, 98% provided emotional support and/or understanding, and 84% were inspirational/optimistic. Conclusions: This dual approach of assessing real-world impact of a virtual Facebook community provided insight into the benefit that members derive and highlighted the integral role of support groups in patient-centric care. Importantly, once members’ emotional and educational needs were met, they were empowered and/or inspired to take positive actions leading to better health behaviors and increased quality of life – an outcome that may have wider applicability for diseases beyond lung cancer.

scholarly journals Edukasi Perilaku Hidup Bersih Dan Sehat (PHBS) Pada Anak-Anak di Kampung Pemekaran Mister Ngiosi Manokwari Pada Masa Pandemi Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Elda Irma Jeanne Joice Kawulur ◽  
Sabarita Sinuraya ◽  
Febriza Dwiranti ◽  
Rawati Panjaitan ◽  
Sita Ratnawati
Keyword(s):  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Hand Washing ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Service Program ◽  
The Given

Clean and Healthy Lifestyle (PHBS) are all health behaviors that are carried out with awareness so that family or family members can help themselves in the health sector and play an active role in health activities in the community. This community service program is motivated by limited access to information, transportation and health in rural areas of Kampung Pemekaran  Mister Ngiosi Manokwari causing a lack of understanding and application of a clean and healthy lifestyle by children, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. To overcome this gap, it is necessary to disseminate information  about clean and healthy living behavior in children. Activities on PHBS are using interactive learning in the form of lectures and giving some questions related to the PHBS and reward, demonstration related to preventing the transmission of Covid-19. The results of the activity showed that about 80% of the children could carry out 11 steps of hand washing activity well. In terms of healthy food, 100% of the children finished the given food.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Benedict S. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
Faculty Psychology ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
History Of Emotion ◽  
History Of

This chapter describes the largest historical, theoretical, and methodological claims of Passion’s Fictions: that in the early modern period a rhetoric of the passions destabilized a received faculty psychology, only to be itself absorbed into new natural histories of the passions; that the concept of passion in the early modern period was crucially shaped by rhetoric, with its account of passion as a situated, worlded, object-oriented mode of cognition; that the rhetoric of the passions centered on an account of narrative as a mode of the knowledge of the passions in their world-bound particularity; that rhetoric also shaped emerging forms of literary production, from Shakespeare’s drama to the rise of the novel; and that literary studies needs to attend to the active role of its own material in the history of the psychology of the passions. The chapter also situates the arguments made in Passion’s Fictions with respect to a series of related areas of inquiry: the history of emotion; affect theory; cognitive cultural studies; the history of philosophy; and the history of science. Overall, it aims to show the intimate links between literature and the sciences of soul and mind through the whole period from 1500 to 1800, and it makes the case that literary history is a crucial territory for investigating changing ways of thinking about the passions, not just in the rarefied space of philosophical and scientific debate but also in broader areas of discourse and culture.

Using pictures to convey health information: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects on patient and consumer health behaviors and outcomes

2020 ◽  
Vol 103 (10) ◽  
pp. 1935-1960 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Schubbe ◽  
Peter Scalia ◽  
Renata W. Yen ◽  
Catherine H. Saunders ◽  
Sarah Cohen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Consumer Health

Electron-Mirror Microscopic Aspects of Ferroelectric Domains of BaTiO3 And Ca2Sr (C2H5CO2)6

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 478-479
Author(s):  
Teruo Someya ◽  
Jinzo Kobayashi
Keyword(s):  
Surface Layer ◽  
Electric Fields ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Ferroelectric Domain ◽  
Resolving Power ◽  
Surface Pattern ◽  
Crystal Surfaces ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Ferroelectric Domains

Recent progress in the electron-mirror microscopy (EMM), e.g., an improvement of its resolving power together with an increase of the magnification makes it useful for investigating the ferroelectric domain physics. English has recently observed the domain texture in the surface layer of BaTiO3. The present authors ) have developed a theory by which one can evaluate small one-dimensional electric fields and/or topographic step heights in the crystal surfaces from their EMM pictures. This theory was applied to a quantitative study of the surface pattern of BaTiO3).

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