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Development of an mHealth Platform for Adolescent Obesity Prevention: User-Cent...

Obesity is a chronic condition that influences the quality of life of patients and families while increasing the economic burden for the world population. Multidisciplinary prevention programs are crucial to address it, allowing an early introduction of healthy behaviors into daily habits. Mobile health interventions provide adequate support for these programs, especially considering the gamification techniques...

Regul-A: A Technological Application for Sensory Regulation of Children with Au...

Background: Sensory processing disorder is now recognised as a core feature of autism spectrum disorder that influences children’s adaptive behaviours, which, in turn, may interfere with their participation in life situations. This study describes the process of developing a technological platform, in the form of an app, to help families regulate children with ASD, aged 3–6 years old, by applying sensory strate...

Controlled trial of an mHealth intervention to promote healthy behaviours in ad...

Aim To evaluate the effectiveness on lifestyle change of an mHealth intervention to promote healthy behaviours in adolescence (TeenPower) and to analyse the predictors of the mHealth intervention effectiveness. Design This study is designed as a non‐randomized controlled trial with a two‐arm structure. Methods Adolescents of 12–16‐year old were recruited from three school districts, with access to the Internet ...

Care4Value: medição de valor em saúde em Unidades de Cuidados Continuados Integ...

Objetivo: Desenvolver uma plataforma digital para a otimização do processo de coleta de dados de escalas clínicas e monitoramento desses dados com vista à medição do valor em saúde. Métodos: Por meio de uma metodologia de investigação-ação, o desenvolvimento da plataforma incluiu abordagens qualitativas e quantitativas, em três fases: grupos focais com uma equipe multidisciplinar de investigadores e profi ssion...

Health outcomes in long-term healthcare units: the case of the Care4Value project.

Smart Campus Parking – Parking Made Easy

The number of users of the parking lots from the campus of the Polytechnic of Leiria, a higher education institution in Portugal, has been increasing each year. It is becoming a major concern to the organization to address the high demand for a free parking spot on campus. In order to ease this problem, this paper proposes the design of a smart parking system that can help users to easily find a free parking sp...

Care4Value: A tailored platform to healthcare instruments in a Long-Term Care (...

Care4Value: a clinical instrument data collection platform for long-term health...

The rise in healthcare costs is a major concern nowadays, especially for chronic diseases scenarios as the ones experienced in long-term healthcare units. Thus, arranging for a platform that helps these healthcare units to monitor and visualize the costs and eventual life quality gains on a per patient basis is essential. Care4Value aims to help in one of the most challenging tasks of healthcare professionals t...

Data visualization techniques for real-time information — A custom and dynamic ...

To achieve the most understandable and accurate display of information, a study on the available techniques of data visualization for real-time information must be made. Customizing existing platforms and designing specific boards, are among the important task to perform an accurate visualization of the information. In this paper, we conduct a literature review of data visualization, its techniques and existing...

Teenpower: an integrated architecture for an mHealth platform designed for e-Em...

Adolescents, reportedly, easily adopt a sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy behaviors. Furthermore, the use of smartphones, especially in this age group, is made on a daily basis. In this context, the TeenPower Project includes an mHealth platform integrated in an intervention programme to engage teenagers to embrace more healthier lifestyle behaviors. This paper describes the technical aspects of the development...