Research Article
An Investigation into the Role of Mobile Technology in Collaborative Disease Management for Persons Living with Type 2 Diabetes
@ARTICLE{10.4108/phat.1.1.e6, author={S. Sultan and P. Mohan}, title={An Investigation into the Role of Mobile Technology in Collaborative Disease Management for Persons Living with Type 2 Diabetes}, journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Pervasive Health and Technology}, volume={1}, number={1}, publisher={ICST}, journal_a={PHAT}, year={2015}, month={5}, keywords={CNCDs, collaborative disease management, diabetes self-management support, mobile health, peer-support, remote self-management, social-networking, telehealth.}, doi={10.4108/phat.1.1.e6} }- S. Sultan
P. Mohan
Year: 2015
An Investigation into the Role of Mobile Technology in Collaborative Disease Management for Persons Living with Type 2 Diabetes
PHAT
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/phat.1.1.e6
Abstract
Diabetes and other chronic non-communicable diseases represent a leading threat to health care and human development. The authors discusses how mobile technology can achieve collaborative disease management (CDM) within a population living with Type 2 diabetes. We introduces a framework for CDM using mobile technologies. While it can be applied to the management of any disease, we describe a specific instance for diabetes peer-support. In this paper, we validate the framework through the development and testing of a Mobile Health initiative called Mobile Diabetes Self-Management Support (DSMS). It allows persons living with diabetes to learn from each others’ experiences through a virtual support group. The paper presents two user studies conducted. The first study captured the participants’ initial perceptions of the application in a controlled environment and the second study investigated system usage and collaboration when the application was used in their personal settings.
Copyright © 2015 S. Sultan and P. Mohan, licensed to ICST. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited.
