東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Supporting Unanchored Information Wo...

Klasnja, Predrag.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Supporting Unanchored Information Work of Cancer Patients with Mobile Technology.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Supporting Unanchored Information Work of Cancer Patients with Mobile Technology./
Author:	Klasnja, Predrag.
Description:	191 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-04, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-04A.
Subject:	Information Science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3443179
ISBN:	9781124490038

Supporting Unanchored Information Work of Cancer Patients with Mobile Technology.
Klasnja, Predrag.

Supporting Unanchored Information Work of Cancer Patients with Mobile Technology. - 191 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-04, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2010.

Cancer patients do considerable information work to manage their care. Technologies that help patients manage health information, such as personal health records and health websites, provide effective support for focused and sustained personal health tasks that patients need to do to play an active role in their care. However, little attention has been paid to patients' need to work with care-related information in circumstances when they lack time, tools, and attention to manage information effectively---such as when they are away from their health information collections or are experiencing chemotherapy side effects. I have called such patient information activities "unanchored patient information work." In my dissertation, I describe my formative work to characterize these important information activities of cancer patients and the circumstances that make them so challenging. Specifically, I argue that patients' efforts to manage care-related information can be impaired both by outside factors that make information management more difficult, such as coordinating care while out and about, and by internal factors that reduce patients' ability to effectively deal with information---such as pain and anxiety. I then describe the iterative, user-centered design of a mobile phone application called HealthWeaver Mobile, developed to support unanchored information activities, and its evaluation with patients undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Research described in this dissertation furthers our understanding of patients' personal health information management practices and it eases an important but challenging aspect of the work that cancer patients do to manage their care.

ISBN: 9781124490038Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017528
Information Science.

Supporting Unanchored Information Work of Cancer Patients with Mobile Technology.
LDR:02584nam 2200277 4500 001 1399313
005 20110928091734.5
008 130515s2010 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9781124490038
035 $a (UMI)AAI3443179
035 $a AAI3443179
040 $a UMI $c UMI
100 1 $a Klasnja, Predrag. $3 1678264
245 1 0 $a Supporting Unanchored Information Work of Cancer Patients with Mobile Technology.
300 $a 191 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-04, Section: A, page: .
500 $a Adviser: Wanda Pratt.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2010.
520 $a Cancer patients do considerable information work to manage their care. Technologies that help patients manage health information, such as personal health records and health websites, provide effective support for focused and sustained personal health tasks that patients need to do to play an active role in their care. However, little attention has been paid to patients' need to work with care-related information in circumstances when they lack time, tools, and attention to manage information effectively---such as when they are away from their health information collections or are experiencing chemotherapy side effects. I have called such patient information activities "unanchored patient information work." In my dissertation, I describe my formative work to characterize these important information activities of cancer patients and the circumstances that make them so challenging. Specifically, I argue that patients' efforts to manage care-related information can be impaired both by outside factors that make information management more difficult, such as coordinating care while out and about, and by internal factors that reduce patients' ability to effectively deal with information---such as pain and anxiety. I then describe the iterative, user-centered design of a mobile phone application called HealthWeaver Mobile, developed to support unanchored information activities, and its evaluation with patients undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Research described in this dissertation furthers our understanding of patients' personal health information management practices and it eases an important but challenging aspect of the work that cancer patients do to manage their care.
590 $a School code: 0250.
650 4 $a Information Science. $3 1017528
650 4 $a Health Sciences, Oncology. $3 1018566
690 $a 0723
690 $a 0992
710 2 $a University of Washington. $3 545923
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 72-04A.
790 1 0 $a Pratt, Wanda, $e advisor
790 $a 0250
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2010
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3443179