Designing a Digital Personal Coach to Promote a Healthy Diet and Physical Activity Among Patients After Cardiothoracic Surgery

Ana Martins, Ana Martins, Isabel Nunes, Luís Lapão, Luís Lapão, Ana Londral, Ana Londral

2023

Abstract

This position paper describes the design of a text-message intervention that uses behavior change theory to help design the intervention to improve patients’ diet and physical activity. The text-message intervention aims to guide patients to improve their self-efficacy in managing their disease to reduce complications and hospital readmissions and improve health-related outcomes, well-being, and quality of life. Design Science Research methodology is used to support problem definition, design, development, and evaluation of a sustainable, useful, and valuable artifact.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Martins A., Nunes I., Lapão L. and Londral A. (2023). Designing a Digital Personal Coach to Promote a Healthy Diet and Physical Activity Among Patients After Cardiothoracic Surgery. In Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: Scale-IT-up, ISBN 978-989-758-631-6, pages 595-602. DOI: 10.5220/0011776800003414

in Bibtex Style

@conference{scale-it-up23,
author={Ana Martins and Isabel Nunes and Luís Lapão and Ana Londral},
title={Designing a Digital Personal Coach to Promote a Healthy Diet and Physical Activity Among Patients After Cardiothoracic Surgery},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: Scale-IT-up,},
year={2023},
pages={595-602},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011776800003414},
isbn={978-989-758-631-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: Scale-IT-up,
TI - Designing a Digital Personal Coach to Promote a Healthy Diet and Physical Activity Among Patients After Cardiothoracic Surgery
SN - 978-989-758-631-6
AU - Martins A.
AU - Nunes I.
AU - Lapão L.
AU - Londral A.
PY - 2023
SP - 595
EP - 602
DO - 10.5220/0011776800003414