Supporting Self-Care of Adolescents with Nut Allergy Through Video and Mobile Educational Tools

Anaphylaxis is a life-threatening allergic reaction which is rapid in onset. Adolescents living with anaphylaxis risk often lack the knowledge and skills required to safely manage their condition or talk to friends about it. We designed an educational intervention comprising group discussion around videos of simulated anaphylaxis scenarios and a mobile application containing video-based branching anaphylaxis narratives. We trialed the intervention with 36 nut allergic adolescents. At 1-year follow-up participants had improved adrenaline auto-injector skills and carriage, disease- and age-specific Quality of Life and confidence in anaphylaxis management. At 3-year follow-up adrenaline carriage improved further and confidence remained higher. Participants expressed how the education session was a turning point in taking control of their allergy and how the app facilitated sharing about anaphylaxis with others. We contribute insights regarding design of mobile self-care and peer-support applications for health in adolescence, and discuss strengths and limitations of video-based mobile health interventions

Getting connected- at what cost? Some ethical issues on mobile HCI

The large scale deployment of mobile applications inevitably affects our daily lives and the whole culture. Not all of these effects are desirable. In a market economy, ethical issues are not the foremost drivers in the development of technology. In this paper, we ask whether the mobile human-computer interaction community could take an active role in discussing the issues which really matter in the development of technology for human beings, rather than concentrating on the fine tuning of emerging gadgets

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Use of electronic medical records and biomarkers to manage risk and resource efficiencies

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The Role of Mobile Health Technologies in Allergy Care:an EAACI Position Paper

Mobile health (mHealth) uses mobile communication devices such as smartphones and tablet computers to support and improve health-related services, data and information flow, patient self-management, surveillance, and disease management from the moment of first diagnosis to an optimized treatment. The European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology created a task force to assess the state of the art and future potential of mHealth in allergology. The task force endorsed the "Be He@lthy, Be Mobile" WHO initiative and debated the quality, usability, efficiency, advantages, limitations, and risks of mobile solutions for allergic diseases. The results are summarized in this position paper, analyzing also the regulatory background with regard to the "General Data Protection Regulation" and Medical Directives of the European Community. The task force assessed the design, user engagement, content, potential of inducing behavioral change, credibility/accountability, and privacy policies of mHealth products. The perspectives of healthcare professionals and allergic patients are discussed, underlining the need of thorough investigation for an effective design of mHealth technologies as auxiliary tools to improve quality of care. Within the context of precision medicine, these could facilitate the change in perspective from clinician- to patient-centered care. The current and future potential of mHealth is then examined for specific areas of allergology, including allergic rhinitis, aerobiology, allergen immunotherapy, asthma, dermatological diseases, food allergies, anaphylaxis, insect venom, and drug allergy. The impact of mobile technologies and associated big data sets are outlined. Facts and recommendations for future mHealth initiatives within EAACI are listed

DiDiMap. Diet Diary and Consumption Control for Monitoring Bowel Dysfunctions and low-FODMAP Diet App

The purpose of this project was to design and implement a mobile application for people with bowel dysfunctions, intolerances, and food allergies. The application was expected to provide all needed functionality for the target groups day to day challenges. Irritable bowel syndrome, intolerances, and food allergies affect a significant portion of the population. On a world basis, 15\% of the population are affected by IBS alone. Although intolerances and food allergies are handled better than before in terms of adaptation from restaurants, food producers, and grocery stores, there’s still a long way to go. Food producers and caterers must, by law, inform consumers of whether their products contain certain common allergens. If a person has an allergy or intolerance outside the standard, there’s little information to get. A systematic review and an app review mapping existing knowledge and implementations for similar apps were conducted. A mobile application was implemented for a low-FODMAP (Fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols) use case based on the conducted reviews features and shortcomings. The app contains features such as optical character recognition to identify potential trigger foods, barcode scanning of food products to retrieve nutritional and intolerance information, and a log to track meals, events during the day, and symptoms. The application also includes a communication platform for connecting and communicating with peers, which can later be expanded into discussion and motivation groups. Unlike other similar applications in the market, the app provides, in addition to peer communication, all needed functionality in a single platform, which enables utilization of log data for consumption control. We conducted a trial of the application with 65 users who were currently following a low-FODMAP diet. Of these 8 people responded to an anonymous survey asking users to rank the system's usability on a scale, and to answer a few application-specific questions. Feedback from user testing indicated a great interest in the app. Through the survey the app gained a system usability score of 85/100, and 75\% thought the app would greatly simplify the process of following the low-FODMAP diet

Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of electronic cigarettes versus nicotine patch for smoking cessation

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