Strategy Study In Persuasive Technology Based Health Self-Management

At present, chronic diseases have become the leading cause of disease death. The prevention and control of chronic diseases is a long-term and arduous task. Researches have shown that self-management is the best way for the prevention and control of chronic diseases. With the development of medicine science and technology, the researchers set out to develop self-management systems in order to assist patients with the daily self-care and the disease management. However, low execution in patients is the largest barrier in the self-management systems. In the last decade, persuasive technology, as a way to change people’s attitudes or behaviors, has developed rapidly and widely used in business fields. This thesis embeded persuasive technology into self-management by constructing a behavior model and realized a self-management system with persuasive strategies. These efforts are expected to slove the problem of patients’ low execution, prompt patients to take part in the self-managemnet consciously and help them form good life attitude, behaviors and habits, and finally improve the efficiency of the self-management.Accordingly, the following tasks were accomplished:1. An innovative mode of self-management was discussed.2. On the basis of Fogg’s behavior model, a FBM quantitative model to assess the probability of behaviors was constructed.3. Appropriate persuasive strategies were applied in the stages of the self-management.4. A persuasive self-management plan was made.5. The persuasive self-management plan was realized in the form of a website. Associated with the hardware equipmemt and mobile applications, a complete persuasive self-management system was built for body weight and blood pressure management.6. The fesibility and effectiveness of the system were assessed. The proposed persuasive self-management system can not only be used in the health management of obesity and hypertension to improve the capacity of the patients about chronic diseases and to promote their health, it may also provide theoretic and practical solution in both theory and practice to general management of other chronic diseases.