App Use and Patient Empowerment in Diabetes Self-Management Advancin
Patient empowerment is examined as a multi-dimensional factor influencing the use of diabetes self-management apps. The research design includes three studies conducted in Singapore. Study 1 examines how features of diabetes self-management apps correspon
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App Use and Patient Empowerment in Diabetes SelfManagement Advancing Theory-Guided mHealth Research
App Use and Patient Empowerment in Diabetes Self-Management
Nicola Brew-Sam
App Use and Patient Empowerment in Diabetes SelfManagement Advancing Theory-Guided mHealth Research
Nicola Brew-Sam Regensburg, Germany Dissertation Philosophische Fakultät der Universität Erfurt, 2019
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Acknowledgements I would like to express my special appreciation and thanks to my supervisors Professor Constanze Rossmann (University of Erfurt, Germany) and Associate Professor Arul Indrasen Chib (NTU Singapore). You have been tremendous mentors for me. I would like to thank you for encouraging my research and for providing incredible feedback on my thesis, as well as on the related journal papers. Your advice on both research as well as on my career have been invaluable. I would like to thank all TOUCH support group members and Diabetes Singapore (former DSS) support group members for the outstanding support when I recruited study participants and collected data for my Ph.D. thesis in Singapore. Moreover, a special thanks to all study participants who took the time for participating in my studies, despite their limited available time and sometimes hard life circumstances dealing with their diabetes. I have never met people who are kinder and stron
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