Digital technology to support the Work It Out Program. A report on the Indigenous Health Portal Project. Project ID 71075

[摘要] Since 2009, the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH) have made significant inroads into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health through successful initiatives like Deadly Choices and the Work It Out (WIO) program. CSIRO's mobile health program was considered to be a suitable complement for the WIO program. The relationship IUIH and WIO had developed over several years with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in metropolitan areas facilitated CSIRO engagement with WIO participants to determine how the technology could meet their needs for tracking health related factors. Following a consultative process, the tailored platform was trialled in two locations and in two phases, with the initial phase trialling a modified health diary and the second, ongoing, phase covering both the health diary and a digitised health program. Results suggest that the technology is more appropriate for some participants than others, and that participants are most interested in tracking those health measures that are directly related to the Work It Out program, such as blood pressure, heart rate and blood sugar. Participants reported that advantages of the health diary included a greater awareness of factors contributing to their health and the ability to show their GPs accurate records of their health data over specific timeframes.

[发布日期] 2018-01-31 [发布机构] CSIRO

[学科分类] 地球科学(综合)