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Mcat: Development Of A Generic Mhealth Tool For Continuous Assessment, Automatic Intervention, And Analysis, A B M Kowser Patwary Apr 2016

Mcat: Development Of A Generic Mhealth Tool For Continuous Assessment, Automatic Intervention, And Analysis, A B M Kowser Patwary

Master's Theses (2009 -)

Use of mobile health (mHealth) technology for behavioral and psychological studies through continuous assessment and intervention is found to be effective. Also, the use of smartphone has increased rapidly last few years, as well as its uses for health support. mHealth research is applied for smoking cessation, motivating cancer survivors and mentoring peers for social engagement. While in most settings researchers are developing their own intervention and assessment tool for each different research. In this study mHealth research is applied and generalized across a range of applications, including smoking cessation, motivating cancer survivors and mentoring peers to improve social engagement. …