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Pregnancy Ecologies As Teachable Moments For The Lifecourse: Changing The MHealth Design Paradigm

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I investigate the potential for mobile health communication and social collaboration technologies (mHealth) to have a positive impact on pregnancy for lower-income American women. Recognizing that pregnancy is more than medical health, I set out to understand what pregnancy is for this population and how the embodied experience of pregnancy impacts women's lives. I have initiated a mixed methods study, which uses focus groups, interviews, information landscape analysis and social media discourse analysis. From the preliminary focus group and interview data, I have created a structuring health concept that I call the pregnancy ecology, accounting for the multi-faceted experience of pregnancy as a transformational event. The future work will incorporate all of the data into a holistic health ecology concept for pregnancy. Using this concept, I intend to design and build a mHealth app that treats pregnancy as a teachable moment for health, wellness and social support throughout the lifecourse.

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Peyton, Tamara (2014): Pregnancy Ecologies As Teachable Moments For The Lifecourse: Changing The MHealth Design Paradigm. Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work. DOI: 10.1145/2660398.2660438. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 269–271. Sanibel Island, Florida, USA

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health and wellness, life course management, mixed methods, pregnancy, mhealth, design paradigms

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