User requirements for prediabetes self-care application: a healthcare professional perspective
The number of people with diabetes is increasing dreadfully in the world today. Efforts to prevent diabetes should be taken at the prediabetes stage itself, because with proper lifestyle changes, diabetes can be prevented or delayed. As such, a self-care application can help prediabetics to monitor...
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| author | Subramaniam, Suthashini Dhillon, Jaspaljeet Singh Ahmad, Mohd Sharifuddin Leong, Joyce Whye Sook Teoh, Cameron |
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| description | The number of people with diabetes is increasing dreadfully in the world today. Efforts to prevent diabetes should be taken at the prediabetes stage itself, because with proper lifestyle changes, diabetes can be prevented or delayed. As such, a self-care application can help prediabetics to monitor their own health to prevent diabetes. The objective of this study is to explore the healthcare professionals’ perspectives that contribute to behavioural change in prediabetics and the user requirements for a self-care application. We conducted semi-structured interviews with eight healthcare professionals. Pre-determined set of open-ended questions were asked by the interviewer to prompt the discussion. Thematic Analysis approach was used to evaluate the responses. Overall, the health professionals were keen with the idea of empowering prediabetics to take control of their health conditions via a self-care application incorporating behaviour change techniques. Several functions were suggested to be included into the application such as forums to allow discussions among the prediabetics, coaching to communicate with healthcare professionals and peer/family support to motivate them to use the applications continuously. |
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| spelling | upm-595252018-03-08T03:28:19Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/59525/ User requirements for prediabetes self-care application: a healthcare professional perspective Subramaniam, Suthashini Dhillon, Jaspaljeet Singh Ahmad, Mohd Sharifuddin Leong, Joyce Whye Sook Teoh, Cameron The number of people with diabetes is increasing dreadfully in the world today. Efforts to prevent diabetes should be taken at the prediabetes stage itself, because with proper lifestyle changes, diabetes can be prevented or delayed. As such, a self-care application can help prediabetics to monitor their own health to prevent diabetes. The objective of this study is to explore the healthcare professionals’ perspectives that contribute to behavioural change in prediabetics and the user requirements for a self-care application. We conducted semi-structured interviews with eight healthcare professionals. Pre-determined set of open-ended questions were asked by the interviewer to prompt the discussion. Thematic Analysis approach was used to evaluate the responses. Overall, the health professionals were keen with the idea of empowering prediabetics to take control of their health conditions via a self-care application incorporating behaviour change techniques. Several functions were suggested to be included into the application such as forums to allow discussions among the prediabetics, coaching to communicate with healthcare professionals and peer/family support to motivate them to use the applications continuously. Springer 2017 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/59525/1/User%20requirements%20for%20prediabetes%20self-care%20application%20a%20healthcare%20professional%20perspective.pdf Subramaniam, Suthashini and Dhillon, Jaspaljeet Singh and Ahmad, Mohd Sharifuddin and Leong, Joyce Whye Sook and Teoh, Cameron (2017) User requirements for prediabetes self-care application: a healthcare professional perspective. In: 2nd International Conference of Reliable Information and Communication Technology (IRICT 2017), 23-24 Apr. 2017, Johor, Malaysia. (pp. 616-626). 10.1007/978-3-319-59427-9_64 |
| spellingShingle | Subramaniam, Suthashini Dhillon, Jaspaljeet Singh Ahmad, Mohd Sharifuddin Leong, Joyce Whye Sook Teoh, Cameron User requirements for prediabetes self-care application: a healthcare professional perspective |
| title | User requirements for prediabetes self-care application: a healthcare professional perspective |
| title_full | User requirements for prediabetes self-care application: a healthcare professional perspective |
| title_fullStr | User requirements for prediabetes self-care application: a healthcare professional perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | User requirements for prediabetes self-care application: a healthcare professional perspective |
| title_short | User requirements for prediabetes self-care application: a healthcare professional perspective |
| title_sort | user requirements for prediabetes self-care application: a healthcare professional perspective |
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