Abstract
with chronic conditions to monitor their condition and treatment.
As these tools put responsibility with patients, it is important to
better understand how patients adopt these tools and how their
context influences this adoption. To this end, we study the adoption
of a self-management application (HeartMan) for patients with
heart failure. Using a socio-technical framework of non-functional
aspects of home-based healthcare technology we aim to integrate
their context and the help they receive from informal caregivers.
We interviewed 10 patients after using the system. Our results
show that although the system increased patients’ knowledge about
healthy diet, encouraged them to be more physically active, and
made some patients feel more aware of their health, it did not allow
for much flexibility regarding the interface and interactions with the
system. As such the system exercises agency over the patient rather
than empowering them. More flexibility regarding how patients
can use the system could empower them to manage their condition
and treatment.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 19 May 2019 |
| Event | 13th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare: Pervasive Health 2019 - Trento, Italy Duration: 20 May 2019 → 23 May 2019 http://pervasivehealth.org/ |
Conference
| Conference | 13th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare |
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| Country | Italy |
| City | Trento |
| Period | 20/05/19 → 23/05/19 |
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Keywords
- self-management
- patients
- human agency
- chronic health conditions
- healthcare
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Human Agency in Self-Management Tools. / Voorend, R; Derboven, J; Slegers, Karin; Baert, Anneleen; Claeys, Els.
2019. Paper presented at 13th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Trento, Italy.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › Other research output
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AU - Voorend, R
AU - Derboven, J
AU - Slegers, Karin
AU - Baert, Anneleen
AU - Claeys, Els
PY - 2019/5/19
Y1 - 2019/5/19
N2 - Self-management tools are increasingly used to empower patientswith chronic conditions to monitor their condition and treatment.As these tools put responsibility with patients, it is important tobetter understand how patients adopt these tools and how theircontext influences this adoption. To this end, we study the adoptionof a self-management application (HeartMan) for patients withheart failure. Using a socio-technical framework of non-functionalaspects of home-based healthcare technology we aim to integratetheir context and the help they receive from informal caregivers.We interviewed 10 patients after using the system. Our resultsshow that although the system increased patients’ knowledge abouthealthy diet, encouraged them to be more physically active, andmade some patients feel more aware of their health, it did not allowfor much flexibility regarding the interface and interactions with thesystem. As such the system exercises agency over the patient ratherthan empowering them. More flexibility regarding how patientscan use the system could empower them to manage their conditionand treatment.
AB - Self-management tools are increasingly used to empower patientswith chronic conditions to monitor their condition and treatment.As these tools put responsibility with patients, it is important tobetter understand how patients adopt these tools and how theircontext influences this adoption. To this end, we study the adoptionof a self-management application (HeartMan) for patients withheart failure. Using a socio-technical framework of non-functionalaspects of home-based healthcare technology we aim to integratetheir context and the help they receive from informal caregivers.We interviewed 10 patients after using the system. Our resultsshow that although the system increased patients’ knowledge abouthealthy diet, encouraged them to be more physically active, andmade some patients feel more aware of their health, it did not allowfor much flexibility regarding the interface and interactions with thesystem. As such the system exercises agency over the patient ratherthan empowering them. More flexibility regarding how patientscan use the system could empower them to manage their conditionand treatment.
KW - self-management
KW - patients
KW - human agency
KW - chronic health conditions
KW - healthcare
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