1. AN APPROACH TO DESIGN AN INTERVENTION TO PROMOTE AFRICAN AMERICANS’ USE OF TECHNOLOGY FOR DIABETES SELF-MANAGEMENT
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Senteio, C, Hershey, D, and Campbell, T
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Abstracts - Abstract
This poster describes a novel approach to address a persistent disparity – older adult African Americans’ use of technology to support type 2 diabetes (AODM) self-management. We describe our methodology of using a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach with participatory design (PD). Participants selected the smartphone to promote intergenerational technology and health information exchange between older adults with AODM and young adults connected to them via familial or naturally occurring social networks. Emergent literature details the considerable benefits to applying CBPR approaches in health informatics and educational research, and the PD method results in design activities that integrate the users’ perspectives with the researchers. Application of this methodology can result in a fertile development environment that leverages the literature to create novel interventions. Despite the benefits, the authors are not aware of a method that incorporates PD for health and technology education focused on populations characterized by persistent health disparities. The conceptual basis of the approach was informed by the socio-ecological model of health and the Senior Technology Acceptance & Adoption Model (STAM) that specifically helped to inform the design of the facilitated sessions. In this poster, we describe this novel method which serves as a guide for implementing health interventions aimed at promoting technology use to support self-management for vulnerable patient populations. We conclude that CBPR with PD is an effective method for designing and implementing interventions to address persistent disparities vis-à-vis technology use to support recommended chronic disease self-management.
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- 2018