Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease of global importance. Because of the fear that comes with the long term physical degenerative processes, people with the disease often do not actively search for information about the health risks. According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, modern technologies such as interactive games and virtual reality platforms can help people with Type 2 diabetes to check their health and make better choices on a regular basis.
"Our findings to light up the unrealised power of information information and communication technologies as social platforms," write authors Kelly Tian (University of Wyoming), Pookie Sautter, Derek Fisher (both New Mexico State University), Sarah Fischbach (University of Hawaii at Manoa), Cuauhtemoc Luna-Nevarez (Sacred Heart University), Kevin Boberg, Jim Kroger (both New Mexico State University), and Richard Vann (University of Wyoming).
The authors find that when people engage in interactive social platforms that can build and hosting online therapeutic communities, they are the people who daily empathy for living with chronic illness. Such as the online therapeutic communities have been developed, players are peers who mentor each other in making better choices about their health.
For companies interested in the financing of grants that support for health care, the study results support the need for creation of therapeutic Community involvement promote online communities where Visual platforms and markets for new technologies. The authors point also need a patient education reform and the design and distribution of information related to a chronic disease such as Type 2 diabetes.
"Emerging bio-health companies that develop products could also benefit from monitoring so that customer input characterized in their product designs," the authors conclude. "Patient visions of how these features help can ease trauma and life enhancing Show the power of the therapeutic community."
Kelly Tian, Pookie Sautter, Derek Fisher, Sarah Fischbach, Cuauhtemoc Luna-Nevarez, Kevin Boberg, Jim Kroger and Richard Vann. "Transform health care: Empowering therapeutic communities through technology-Enhanced stories." Journal of Consumer Research: August 2014.
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