Electronic Healthcare. First International Conference, eHealth 2008, London, UK, September 8-9, 2008. Revised Selected Papers

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Potentials of Web 2.0 for Diabetes Education of Adolescent Patients

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-00413-1_29,
        author={Omid Shabestari and Abdul Roudsari},
        title={Potentials of Web 2.0 for Diabetes Education of Adolescent Patients},
        proceedings={Electronic Healthcare. First International Conference, eHealth 2008, London, UK, September 8-9, 2008. Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={E-HEALTH},
        year={2012},
        month={5},
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        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-00413-1_29}
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  • Omid Shabestari
    Abdul Roudsari
    Year: 2012
    Potentials of Web 2.0 for Diabetes Education of Adolescent Patients
    E-HEALTH
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00413-1_29
Omid Shabestari1, Abdul Roudsari1,*
  • 1: City University
*Contact email: a.v.roudsari@city.ac.uk

Abstract

Diabetes is a very common chronic disease which produces compli-cations in almost all body organs and consumes a huge amount of the health budget. Although education has proved to be useful in diabetes management, there is a great need to improve the availability of these courses for the increasing number of diabetic patients. E-learning can facilitate this service, but the current education system should be tailored towards e-learning standards. Amongst diabetic patients, adolescents as computer natives are suggested as the best target to e-learning diabetes education. With regards to its features, Web 2.0 can be a very good technology to build a framework for diabetes education and consequent evaluation of this education.