Research Article
DIABESITY: A Study for mHealth Integrated Solutions
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-58877-3_26, author={Italo Zoppis and Giancarlo Mauri and Ferancesco Sicurello and Eugenio Santoro and Giada Pietrabissa and Gianluca Castelnuovo}, title={DIABESITY: A Study for mHealth Integrated Solutions}, proceedings={Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. 6th International Conference, MobiHealth 2016, Milan, Italy, November 14-16, 2016, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={MOBIHEALTH}, year={2017}, month={6}, keywords={Type 2 diabetes mHealth Psychological questionnaires Obesity}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-58877-3_26} }- Italo Zoppis
Giancarlo Mauri
Ferancesco Sicurello
Eugenio Santoro
Giada Pietrabissa
Gianluca Castelnuovo
Year: 2017
DIABESITY: A Study for mHealth Integrated Solutions
MOBIHEALTH
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58877-3_26
Abstract
Obesity is now one of the most critical and demanding public health condition due to the correlation with many medical and psychological comorbidities, such as cardiovascular, orthopedic, pneumological, endocrinological, psychopathological complications, above all the type 2 diabetes. Obesity traditionally needs long and expensive treatments in a chronic care management approach. So clinical research has to develop, test and validate cheaper rehabilitation programs. For this reason, we developed the study, the design of a mHealth integrated platform to promote the empowerment of patients in self-monitoring and successfully managing their pathological conditions (focusing on obesity and type 2 diabetes) through the use of mobile devices. In this paper we report this study by discussing the following two important aspects of . (i) Dietary mHealth tools for home-patients; (ii) Measures to capture the psychological factors and processes which mediate change of behavior and affect initiation and maintenance phases.