TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding challenges in prehabilitation for patients with multiple chronic conditions
AU - Zhu, Haining
AU - Moffa, Zachary
AU - Wang, Xiying
AU - Abdullah, Saeed
AU - Julaiti, Juxihong
AU - Carroll, John
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Little has been done to understand what challenges surgical patients face before surgery. Specifically, patients with multiple chronic conditions (MCC) often require prehabilitation–pre-surgery steps to improve baseline levels of health parameters required for surgery. Prehabilitation can improve health-care outcomes, reduce costs, and decrease readmissions. However, prehabilitation can be challenging for MCC patients since they need to balance chronic conditions with surgical preparation. Unsuccessful prehabilitation adherence can result in serious medical consequences including postponed surgeries and postoperative complications. In this work, we explore prehabiliation challenges faced by patients with MCC and identify opportunities for technological interventions by conducting a qualitative study of online health forum posts from 154 users. Using this data, we identified categories of patients’ needs and challenges during prehabilitation.Based on our findings, we propose design recommendations to better support prehabilitation for patients with MCC.
AB - Little has been done to understand what challenges surgical patients face before surgery. Specifically, patients with multiple chronic conditions (MCC) often require prehabilitation–pre-surgery steps to improve baseline levels of health parameters required for surgery. Prehabilitation can improve health-care outcomes, reduce costs, and decrease readmissions. However, prehabilitation can be challenging for MCC patients since they need to balance chronic conditions with surgical preparation. Unsuccessful prehabilitation adherence can result in serious medical consequences including postponed surgeries and postoperative complications. In this work, we explore prehabiliation challenges faced by patients with MCC and identify opportunities for technological interventions by conducting a qualitative study of online health forum posts from 154 users. Using this data, we identified categories of patients’ needs and challenges during prehabilitation.Based on our findings, we propose design recommendations to better support prehabilitation for patients with MCC.
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U2 - 10.1145/3240925.3240959
DO - 10.1145/3240925.3240959
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85116379558
SN - 9781450364508
T3 - PervasiveHealth: Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
BT - Proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2018
A2 - Minsky, Noga
A2 - Osmani, Venet
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 12th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2018
Y2 - 21 May 2018 through 24 May 2018
ER -