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Team Health Owl. Get Empowered. Make smart choices. Michael A. Diefenbach, Ph.D. & Kevin Durr Mount Sinai School of Medicine & notsoldseparately.com LLC. An app designed to make cancer screening and its decision-making process simple and reliable. Background.
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Team HealthOwl Get Empowered. Make smart choices. Michael A. Diefenbach, Ph.D. & Kevin Durr Mount Sinai School of Medicine & notsoldseparately.com LLC An app designed to make cancer screening and its decision-making process simple and reliable
Background • Early detection is an important component to the Nation’s cancer control efforts. • However: • Not every person benefits from screening • Screening can be distressing • Not all cancer screening procedures reduce Cancer mortality • Screening recommendations vary across organizations • Thus, patients need to be • informed about their options • involved in the screening decision process
Aims of the App • Provide tailored cancer screening recommendations based on recorded cancer family history and demographic variables • Educate users about screening procedures & cancer prevalance & mortality data by US state • Provides Pros and Cons of screening • Provide decision tool to aid in the decision making process • Testimonials from people who did/did not screen • Provide action plan to assist in identifing physicians, communicating ones decision to provider, provide information about screening for the non-insured • Provide reminders about screening appointments • Offers mental health resources for emotional distress
Theoretical Framework • Self-regulation framework (SLR) guides the development. SLR has these key elements • Cancer relevant expectations, beliefs, including self-efficacy beliefs and beliefs about screening and treatment • Cancer relevant affective states • Perceived competencies • The app will speak to each of these 3 key components, by: • Addressing beliefs and expectations • Providing reassuring messages and resources to cope with distress • Offering detailed action plans
Use of public available data • Screening recommendations and screening information will be generated from NCI’s PDQ and Medline+. • Prevelance data by state and county level for all major cancers from http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov
HealthOwl on these Platforms • The app will be available: • on the web • On mobile platforms • iPhone, Android, Blackberry & Windows Phone 7 , and the Web (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Safari ) • Key Technologies • HTML5, CSS3, jQueryMobile, PhoneGap Visit http://www.healthowl.org/tour/ to watch an interactive video tour of our prototype