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Attended Medicine 2.0'11 (Stanford University, USA)
Friday, September 16, 2011 to Sunday, September 18, 2011
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Is registered to attend Medicine 2.0'12 (Boston, USA)
Saturday, September 15, 2012 to Sunday, September 16, 2012
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Accepted Abstracts

Medicine 2.0'11 (Stanford University, USA)

Consumer Empowerment: Health Information on the Web
Maritta Anneli Välimäki*, Heli Hätönen, Lauri Kuosmanen, Marita Koivunen, Minna Anttila, Anneli Pitkänen

Background: e-Health has been increasingly used in the field on mental health care. Major difficulties may still arise when introducing new web-based health information into routine daily practice. Psychiatric nurses have less often used computers or Internet with patients and their information and communication technology (ICT) skills may be low. Substantial evidence suggests that to change behaviour is possible, but this change generally requires comprehensive approaches at different levels...

Medicine 2.0'12 (Boston, USA)

Mobile-Based SMS Intervention to Encourage Compliance in People with Serious Mental Disorders – Developing User-Friendly Intervention (SMS) and a Multi-Centre Randomised Controlled Design
Maritta Anneli Välimäki*, Heli Hätönen, Kaisa Kauppi, Clive E Adams

Background Non-adherence is the single most important predictor of relapse and readmission among patients with serious mental disorders affecting more costs to the society and disturbing everyday lives of patients and their families. Schizophrenia is associated with long-term illness with relapses and poor compliance. People, especially young, do not like to need long term treatment; often there is lack of insight or people forget to keep their appointments. It is therefore important to find...

Mental Health Information on the Web: Interactivity of Greek and Finnish Websites
Christina Athanasopoulou*, Heli Hätönen, Sanna Suni, Christos Lionis, Maritta Välimäki*

Background Internet users increasingly perform online searches related to health topics. At the same time the percentage of health-seekers is growing also among those diagnosed with a serious mental disorder. What health-seekers access and the quality of the retrieved information, has been researchers’ concern for the last sixteen years. Among others, interactivity is a quality indicator measuring to what extent the internet user can interact with a specific website and its developers. How...

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