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Supporting Information Needs of Transitional Phases in Diabetes Management Through Online Health Communities
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2017
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European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET)
Abstract
As of 2014, 29.1 million people in the US and 422 million in the world have diabetes. Diabetes has a substantial and increasing impact on the quality of life. Patients face the burden of self-management and have day-to-day decisional needs when they attempt to find out about their choices and decided on the next course of action. The field has under-explored these decisional needs. To this end, I aim to investigate how patients make decisions in online health communities and present solutions to provide balanced and comprehensive information to better support patient decisional needs.