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Professor of Public Health Medicine, Warwick Medical School

Conferences

Attended Medicine 2.0'10 (Maastricht, NL)
Monday, November 29, 2010 to Tuesday, November 30, 2010
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Accepted Abstracts

Medicine 2.0'10 (Maastricht, NL)

“Oh Dear, Should I Really Be Saying That on Here?” Issues of Identity and Authority in an Online Diabetes Community.
Natalie Armstrong, John Powell

Background The promise of self-management by increasingly ‘expert’ patients has obvious attractions for health services needing to make cost-savings. Diabetes is an area which has seen a plethora of self-management initiatives in recent years, often mediated by technology which the patient uses independently or in collaboration with health professionals. We established a closed virtual community for a group of patients with type 1 diabetes who used insulin pumps, with the aim of support...

Carers 2.0? Qualitative Study of the Views of Carers on the Adoption of Networked Communication Technologies.
John Powell

Background The economic, social and psychological burden on informal carers of people with dementia is huge, and their practical needs for support, as well as their needs in relation to the emotional impact of caring, are especially high. Web 2.0 technologies are emerging as tools to help carers to reduce social isolation, to seek health information and support, to share experiences with others, to undertake remote consultations, to remotely monitor the person they are caring for, and to org...

Medicine 2.0'11 (Stanford University, USA)

Participants' Experiences of an Online Intervention and Randomised Control Trial
Daniel Todkill, John Powell

Background The internet has become host to a growing variety of interventions from tools to treat depression or increase physical activity, to helping the user stop smoking. Whilst there is an expanding body of literature evaluating the effectiveness of these interventions, fewer studies have examined participants' motivations and experiences of engaging with an intervention that is delivered solely online. This can inform how we may tailor interventions to increase uptake, compliance and ma...

Going (Digital) Native: Involving Young People in Medicine 2.0 Research
Natalie Louise Byrom, John Powell

The term “digital natives” has increasingly been used in academic discourse to describe the generation of young people who have grown up using web 2.0 technologies as part of their everyday lives. When conducting research with the aim of developing web 2.0 based interventions to support the healthcare needs of young people, it is important to involve young people in the design of the research. Involving young people can confer many benefits, including; maximizing the chances of adoption o...

Full Paper Publications

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Stakeholder Perspectives on the Development of a Virtual Clinic for Diabetes Care: Qualitative Study
Natalie Armstrong, Hilary Hearnshaw, John Powell, Jeremy Dale
J Med Internet Res 2007;9(3):e23

A Virtual Clinic for Diabetes Self-Management: Pilot Study
Amy Jennings, John Powell, Natalie Armstrong, Jackie Sturt, Jeremy Dale
J Med Internet Res 2009;11(1):e10

The Characteristics and Motivations of Online Health Information Seekers: Cross-Sectional Survey and Qualitative Interview Study
John Powell, Nadia Inglis, Jennifer Ronnie, Shirley Large
J Med Internet Res 2011;13(1):e20

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