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PEGASO: a personalised and motivational ICT system to empower adolescents towards healthy lifestyles (2014)
Journal Article
Carrino, S., Caon, M., Angelini, L., Mugellini, E., Abou Khaled, O., Orte, S., …Rizzo, G. (2014). PEGASO: a personalised and motivational ICT system to empower adolescents towards healthy lifestyles. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 207, https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-474-9-350

Unhealthy alimentary behaviours and physical inactivity habits are key risk factors for major non communicable diseases. Several researches demonstrate that juvenile obesity can lead to serious medical conditions, pathologies and have important psych... Read More about PEGASO: a personalised and motivational ICT system to empower adolescents towards healthy lifestyles.

The role of learning disability nurses in promoting cervical screening uptake in women with intellectual disabilities: a qualitative study (2014)
Journal Article
Lloyd, J. L., & Coulson, N. S. (2014). The role of learning disability nurses in promoting cervical screening uptake in women with intellectual disabilities: a qualitative study. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 18(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/1744629514528829

Research suggests that the uptake of cervical screening by women with intellectual disabilities (commonly known as learning disabilities within UK policy frameworks, practice areas and health services) is poor compared to women without intellectual d... Read More about The role of learning disability nurses in promoting cervical screening uptake in women with intellectual disabilities: a qualitative study.

Towards individualised persuasive technology for obesity prevention in teenagers (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lafortuna, C. L., Caon, M., Tabozzi, S. A., Carrino, S., Coulson, N. S., Serrano, J. C., Sacco, M., Khaled, O. A., Rizzo, G., & Mugellini, E. (2014, March). Towards individualised persuasive technology for obesity prevention in teenagers. Presented at HEALTHINF 2014 - 7th International Conference on Health Informatics, Proceedings; Part of 7th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2014, ESEO, Angers, Loire Valley, France

Obesity is a major clinical problem for individuals and health care systems worldwide, alarmingly fuelled by body mass excess in the juvenile age. In spite of its multi-factorial origin, unhealthy lifestyles relative to alimentary behaviours and phys... Read More about Towards individualised persuasive technology for obesity prevention in teenagers.

Towards individualised persuasive technology for obesity prevention in teenagers (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lafortuna, C. L., Caon, M., Tabozzi, S. A., Carrino, S., Coulson, N. S., Serrano, J. C., …Mugellini, E. (2014). Towards individualised persuasive technology for obesity prevention in teenagers. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics: SUPERHEAL, (BIOSTEC 2014) (591-598). https://doi.org/10.5220/0004938805910598

Obesity is a major clinical problem for individuals and health care systems worldwide, alarmingly fuelled by body mass excess in the juvenile age. In spite of its multi-factorial origin, unhealthy lifestyles relative to alimentary behaviours and phys... Read More about Towards individualised persuasive technology for obesity prevention in teenagers.