Associations Between Immigration-Related User Factors and eHealth Activities for Self-Care: Case of First-Generation Immigrants From Pakistan in the Oslo Area, Norway.

Background: Immigrant populations are often disproportionally affected by chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Use of information and communication technology (ICT) is one promising approach for better self-care of T2DM to mitigate the social health inequalities, if designed for a wider population. However, knowledge is scarce about immigrant populations' diverse electronic health (eHealth) activities for self-care, especially in European countries.

Correction: The Association Between Commonly Investigated User Factors and Various Types of eHealth Use for Self-Care of Type 2 Diabetes: Case of First-Generation Immigrants From Pakistan in the Oslo Area, Norway.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.2196/publichealth.7009.

The Association Between Commonly Investigated User Factors and Various Types of eHealth Use for Self-Care of Type 2 Diabetes: Case of First-Generation Immigrants From Pakistan in the Oslo Area, Norway.

Background: Sociodemographic and health-related factors are often investigated for their association with the active use of electronic health (eHealth). The importance of such factors has been found to vary, depending on the purpose or means of eHealth and the target user groups. Pakistanis are one of the biggest immigrant groups in the Oslo area, Norway.

Testing Universal Design of a Public Media Website with Diverse Users.

Testing with users can identify more issues than other testing methods. Many researchers have argued for the importance of user testing in Universal Design. However, testing Universal Design with diverse users poses many challenges.

eHealth Use Among First-Generation Immigrants From Pakistan in the Oslo Area, Norway, With Focus on Diabetes: Survey Protocol.

Background: A variety of eHealth services are available and commonly used by the general public. eHealth has the potential to engage and empower people with managing their health. The prerequisite is, however, that eHealth services are adapted to the sociocultural heterogeneity of the user base and are available in a language and with contents that fit the users' preference, skills, and abilities.

Usage and perceptions of a mobile self-management application for people with type 2 diabetes: qualitative study of a five-month trial.

Despite a growing number of clinical-intervention studies of mobile applications for diabetes self-management, details of participants' engagement with the intervention tools and of usability and feasibility issues are seldom reported. The Few Touch application is a mobile-phone-based self-management system for people with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) developed by involving patient-users in design processes from an early phase to a long-term trial. An improved version was tested in a five-month trial by 11 individuals either with T2DM or at high risk of T2DM.

Designing a diabetes mobile application with social network support.

Although mobile applications and social media have emerged as important facets of the Internet, their role in healthcare is still not well-understood. We present design artefacts, inspired by persuasive technology concepts, from a study of social media as part of a diabetes mHealth application. We used the design science approach for mobile application design, and real-life user testing and focus group meetings to test the application over a 12-week period with 7 participants.

Long-term engagement with a mobile self-management system for people with type 2 diabetes.

Background: In a growing number of intervention studies, mobile phones are used to support self-management of people with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, it is difficult to establish knowledge about factors associated with intervention effects, due to considerable differences in research designs and outcome measures as well as a lack of detailed information about participants' engagement with the intervention tool.

Objective: To contribute toward accumulating knowledge about factors associated with usage and usability of a mobile self-management application over time through a thorough analysis of multiple types of investigation on each participant's engagement.

Mobile health applications to assist patients with diabetes: lessons learned and design implications.

Self-management is critical to achieving diabetes treatment goals. Mobile phones and Bluetooth® can supportself-management and lifestyle changes for chronic diseases such as diabetes. A mobile health (mHealth) research platform--the Few Touch Application (FTA)--is a tool designed to support the self-management of diabetes.

Review of mobile terminal-based tools for diabetes diet management.

Changing dietary habits is one of the most challenging tasks of diabetes self-management. Mobile terminals are increasingly used as platforms for tools to support diet management and health promotion. We present literature describing mobile terminal-based support tools for management of diabetes focused on diet.

Mobile phone-based self-management tools for type 2 diabetes: the few touch application.

Background: Mobile phones and other mobile information and communication technology applications and technologies hold great potential as a basis for powerful patient-operated self-management tools within diabetes. The work presented shows how such tools can be designed for supporting lifestyle changes among people with type 2 diabetes and how these were perceived by a group of 12 patients during a 6-month period.

Method: The study used focus groups, interviews, feasibility testing, questionnaires, paper prototyping, and prototyping of both software and hardware components.

A novel blood pressure monitoring device for ubiquitous healthcare services.

Hypertension is a world wide issue, and it is now generally accepted that its diurnal pattern has a prognostic significance. The purpose of this study is to develop a novel blood pressure (BP) monitoring device that causes less discomfort and is less disruptive of users' daily activities than conventional ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) devices. The proposed device is worn at an ear orifice and measures BP at the tragus.