title: A healthy lifestyle coaching-persuasive application for patients with type 2 diabetes.
abstract: Losing weight can be one of the toughest objectives related to diabetes treatment, especially for Type 2 diabetes mellitus. This paper describes a tool to set goals to achieve lifestyle behavioral changes, and keep track of the benefits derived from these changes. This strategy leans on the capability of evaluating users' compliance to treatment, identifying key points where the lack of motivation causes therapy dropping, and on the better resources that physicians will have to adjust the treatments and the prescriptions.
authors.affiliation: Lifestyle Supporting Technologies Group, Technical University of Madrid, ES 28040, Spain. gfico@lst.tfo.upm.es
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fico
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fioravanti
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Arredondo
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ardigó
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guillén
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000628:therapy*; D004867:Equipment Design; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D010565:Persuasive Communication; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface