TY - GEN
T1 - Cancer compass
T2 - 2013 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare and Workshops, PervasiveHealth 2013
AU - Jacobs, Maia
AU - Clawson, James
AU - Mynatt, Elizabeth
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - As personal health records (PHRs) become more common, they have the potential to become a critical tool for breast cancer survivors. Our research has identified a hierarchy of needs that could be addressed, in part, through PHR capabilities. While breast cancer survivors are expected to receive many benefits from using PHRs, little is known about how people will use and adopt this technology. In order to gain a better understanding of the potential uses and pitfalls for PHRs, we will give 80 breast cancer survivors mobile PHR systems and monitor their usage over the course of two months. We will investigate the motivational factors that lead to PHR adoption and the correlations between system usage, self-efficacy and locus of control. Our goal is to understand if PHRs have the potential to successfully engage breast cancer survivors with their daily health practices.
AB - As personal health records (PHRs) become more common, they have the potential to become a critical tool for breast cancer survivors. Our research has identified a hierarchy of needs that could be addressed, in part, through PHR capabilities. While breast cancer survivors are expected to receive many benefits from using PHRs, little is known about how people will use and adopt this technology. In order to gain a better understanding of the potential uses and pitfalls for PHRs, we will give 80 breast cancer survivors mobile PHR systems and monitor their usage over the course of two months. We will investigate the motivational factors that lead to PHR adoption and the correlations between system usage, self-efficacy and locus of control. Our goal is to understand if PHRs have the potential to successfully engage breast cancer survivors with their daily health practices.
KW - breast cancer
KW - cancer compass
KW - personal health records
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U2 - 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2013.252036
DO - 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2013.252036
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84883089964
SN - 9781936968800
T3 - Proceedings of the 2013 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare and Workshops, PervasiveHealth 2013
SP - 264
EP - 265
BT - Proceedings of the 2013 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare and Workshops, PervasiveHealth 2013
Y2 - 5 May 2013 through 8 May 2013
ER -
