title: Empowering citizens for well-being and chronic disease management with wellness diary.
abstract: Chronic conditions closely related to lifestyles are the major cause of disability and death in the developed world. Behavior change is the key to managing well-being and preventing and managing chronic diseases. Wellness diary (WD) is a mobile application designed to support citizens in learning about their behavior, and both making and maintaining behavior changes. WD has been found acceptable, useful, and suitable for long-term use as a part of an intervention. When used independently, however, it does not seem to have enough engaging and motivating features to support adoption and long-term commitment. The main improvement needs identified based on a review of WD-related studies were: personalization of the application to individual needs, increasing motivation during early use, maintaining motivation, and aiding in relapse recovery in long-term use. We present concepts to improve the personalization of WD as well as improvements to the feedback and interpretation of the self-observation data. We also present usage models on how this type of mobile application could be utilized.
authors.affiliation: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Tampere 33101, Finland. elina.m.mattila@vtt.fi
authors.forename: Elina
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mattila
authors.forename: Ilkka
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Korhonen
authors.forename: Jukka H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Salminen
authors.forename: Aino
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ahtinen
authors.forename: Esa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Koskinen
authors.forename: Antti
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Särelä
authors.forename: Juha
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pärkkä
authors.forename: Raimo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lappalainen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D008499:Medical Records; D008875:Middle Aged; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012046:Rehabilitation; D012648:Self Care / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology; D012984:Software; D015431:Weight Loss