{"title":"The Benefits of Using Online Health Support Groups for Information Acquisition for People with Type 2 Diabetes in the UK","authors":"Abdulaziz Almanea, P. Bath, L. Sbaffi","doi":"10.15626/ishimr.2020.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15626/ishimr.2020.14","url":null,"abstract":"Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a self-managed chronic condition that requires certain skills and knowledge to manage, both by the patient and health care professionals. People with T2D take daily decisions regarding their health and are responsible for the consequences. This creates a need to use different resources to obtain the required knowledge and the skills to control and manage the condition. This paper reports on a study to investigate the advantages of using online health support groups (OHSGs) for information exchange for people with T2D in the UK. In this paper, we collected data from 814 threads and posts from three diabetes UK-based OHSGs and analysed these using thematic analysis. The thematic analysis revealed three main benefits of using OHSGs for information acquisition: (1) Fulfilling information needs, (2) Overcoming barriers and (3) Supporting control and management of the condition. The results suggest that OHSGs serve as an excellent source for information acquisition for people with T2D.","PeriodicalId":404498,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 18th international symposium on health information management research","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129117101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparing Two Definitions of ‘Welfare technology’ - An Ideal-type Analysis Using Industrial and Welfare Societies","authors":"Annika Hasselblad","doi":"10.15626/ishimr.2020.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15626/ishimr.2020.09","url":null,"abstract":"The Swedish government has recently invested millions in ‘welfare technologies’, which are aimed at both enhancing safety and solve the demographic problem of an increasing elderly population and a consequent lack of healthcare personnel. Studies have shown that when welfare technologies are implemented, core values are getting lost due to a lack of knowledge on how to transform the caregiving and care-taking relationship through the use of digital technology. This study investigates correspondences between values associated with two welfare technology definitions and the ideal-types of a welfare and an industrial society. The results show that the definition created by IT & Telecom Industries includes values that are similar to those of the industrial society ideal-type, while the definition created by the Swedish Auxiliary Institute includes values similar to those associated with the welfare society ideal-type. This shows a gap in value prioritization of the creators of these definitions, which leads to confusion regarding the purpose of welfare technologies.","PeriodicalId":404498,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 18th international symposium on health information management research","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123566506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Customers’ Technology Acceptance of Mobile Applications for Personalized Healthcare","authors":"Rositsa F. Dimitrova, P. Ketikidis","doi":"10.15626/ishimr.2020.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15626/ishimr.2020.02","url":null,"abstract":"In line with the global trend towards mobile technologies and the increased interest in personalized healthcare solutions various mobile applications for personalized healthcare have been created. The acceptance rate is lower than accepted and existing academic research reveals the need for further examination of the factors motivating people to use such applications. The present study, based on the Extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) model, examines the extent of the influence of price value, social influence, hedonic motivation and performance expectancy on the behavioural intention of end customers to use mobile health applications. The moderating factors age, gender and experience are also assessed. A survey was conducted among 123 residents of Bulgaria, aged 18-50, who are actively using smart phones. The researcher discovered that performance expectancy, followed by hedonic motivation, are the factors with the strongest influence on the individuals’ decision to use mobile health applications","PeriodicalId":404498,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 18th international symposium on health information management research","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127734770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding reactions to swine flu, Ebola, and the Zika virus using Twitter data: an outlook for future infectious disease outbreaks","authors":"W. Ahmed, P. Bath","doi":"10.15626/ishimr.2020.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15626/ishimr.2020.04","url":null,"abstract":"Infectious disease outbreaks are a serious public health threat which can disrupt world economies. This paper presents an in-depth qualitative analysis of n=15,415 tweets that relate to the peak of three major infectious diseases: the swine flu outbreak of 2009, the Ebola outbreak of 2014, and the Zika outbreak of 2016. Tweets were analysed using thematic analysis and a number of themes and sub-themes were identified. The results were brought together in an abstraction phase and the commonalities between the cases were studied. A notable similarity which emerged was the rate at which Twitter users expressed intense fear and panic akin to that of the phenomena of “moral panic” and the “outbreak narrative”. Our study also discusses the utility of using Twitter data for in-depth qualitative research as compared to traditional interview-methods. Our study is the largest in-depth analysis of tweets on infectious diseases and could inform public health strategies for future outbreaks such as the coronavirus outbreak.","PeriodicalId":404498,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 18th international symposium on health information management research","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132460637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fine-grained text simplification in French: steps towards a better grammaticality","authors":"Anaïs Koptient, N. Grabar","doi":"10.15626/ISHIMR.2020.XXX","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15626/ISHIMR.2020.XXX","url":null,"abstract":"The question on easy access to medical and health information by patients has attracted attention of the society and researchers. It has been indeed observed that poor understanding of medical and health information by patients may be harmful for their healthcare process. We assume that simplification and adaptation of technical documents may provide a solution to this situation. While the dedicated guidelines to the simplification summarize different kinds of criteria to consider, actually, it is still difficult to respect all these criteria. Usually, automatic systems for text simplification address some lexical or syntactic transformations. Besides, little work is done on simplification and adaptation of medical and health texts. We propose to combine lexical and syntactic simplification within a rulebased system, and to make it more fine-grained through additional processing. More particularly, we consider transformation of passive sentences into active sentences, and we control the grammatical concordance within sentences. We work with technical medical documents in French. The results are mainly evaluated according to the three measures specifically dedicated to the simplification: semantics, simplicity and grammaticality.","PeriodicalId":404498,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 18th international symposium on health information management research","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132786643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}