Happy: cancer prevention using smartphones

• Tipo: Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional
• Data: 2016

Autores

Nuno Ribeiro (Autor) FCUP

Ata de Conferência Internacional

Título: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS/INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROJECT MANAGEMENT/INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES, CENTERIS/PROJMAN / HCIST 2016

Páginas: 466-473

International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems / International Conference on Project MANagement / International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies (CENTERIS/ProjMAN/HCist)

Porto, PORTUGAL, OCT 05-07, 2016

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ID Authenticus: P-00M-F51

DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2016.09.183

Abstract (EN): Tobacco and alcohol consumption, excessive sun exposure and lack of physical exercise are important risk factors for cancer. In fact, more than half of cancer cases are due to wrong behavioural options; if everyone adopted a healthier lifestyle, cancer incidence would fall dramatically. Information campaigns are critical to raise cancer awareness but they simply are not enough to promote behaviour change. The main purpose of the work presented in this paper is to develop a smartphone app, capable of inducing behaviour changes on individuals. A cancer prevention app called Happy was designed and is currently being tested. Preliminary results from a feasibility study show that Happy might be an effective health promotion app, capable of persuading users to change their behaviour towards cancer prevention. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 8