Findings of e-ESAS: A Mobile Based Symptom Monitoring System for Breast Cancer Patients in Rural Bangladesh

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Language

eng

Format of Original

10 p.

Publication Date

5-2012

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Source Publication

CHI '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Source ISSN

9781450310154

Original Item ID

doi: 10.1145/2207676.2208532

Abstract

Breast cancer (BC) patients need traditional treatment as well as long term monitoring through an adaptive feedback-oriented treatment mechanism. Here, we present the findings of our 31-week long field study and deployment of e-ESAS – the first mobile-based remote symptom monitoring system (RSMS) developed for rural BC patients where patients are the prime users rather than just the source of data collection at some point of time. We have also shown how „motivation‟ and „automation‟ have been integrated in e-ESAS and creating a unique motivation-persuasion-motivation cycle where the motivated patients become proactive change agents by persuading others. Though in its early deployment stages (2 months), e-ESAS demonstrates the potential to positively impact the cancer care by (1) helping the doctors with graphical charts of long symptom history (automation), (2) facilitating timely interventions through alert generation (automation) and (3) improving three way communications (doctor-patient-attendant) for a better decision making process (motivation) and thereby improving the quality of life of BC patients.

Comments

Published as part of the proceedings of the conference, CHI '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 2012: 899-908. DOI. © 2012 Association for Computing Machinery.

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