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Empower Yourself: HealthOwl App for Personalized Cancer Screening Decisions

The HealthOwl app simplifies cancer screening decision-making, offering personalized recommendations based on family history and demographics. It educates users on screening procedures, cancer prevalence, and mortality statistics by state. Users can access pros and cons of screenings, testimonials, and create action plans to communicate decisions with healthcare providers. Additionally, the app provides reminders for appointments and mental health resources for emotional support. By leveraging public data, it guides users through the complex landscape of cancer screening with ease.

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Empower Yourself: HealthOwl App for Personalized Cancer Screening Decisions

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  1. Team HealthOwl Get Empowered. Make smart choices. Michael A. Diefenbach, Ph.D. & Kevin Durr Mount Sinai School of Medicine & notsoldseparately.com LLC An app designed to make cancer screening and its decision-making process simple and reliable

  2. Background • Early detection is an important component to the Nation’s cancer control efforts. • However: • Not every person benefits from screening • Screening can be distressing • Not all cancer screening procedures reduce Cancer mortality • Screening recommendations vary across organizations • Thus, patients need to be • informed about their options • involved in the screening decision process

  3. Aims of the App • Provide tailored cancer screening recommendations based on recorded cancer family history and demographic variables • Educate users about screening procedures & cancer prevalance & mortality data by US state • Provides Pros and Cons of screening • Provide decision tool to aid in the decision making process • Testimonials from people who did/did not screen • Provide action plan to assist in identifing physicians, communicating ones decision to provider, provide information about screening for the non-insured • Provide reminders about screening appointments • Offers mental health resources for emotional distress

  4. Theoretical Framework • Self-regulation framework (SLR) guides the development. SLR has these key elements • Cancer relevant expectations, beliefs, including self-efficacy beliefs and beliefs about screening and treatment • Cancer relevant affective states • Perceived competencies • The app will speak to each of these 3 key components, by: • Addressing beliefs and expectations • Providing reassuring messages and resources to cope with distress • Offering detailed action plans

  5. Use of public available data • Screening recommendations and screening information will be generated from NCI’s PDQ and Medline+. • Prevelance data by state and county level for all major cancers from http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov

  6. HealthOwl on these Platforms • The app will be available: • on the web • On mobile platforms • iPhone, Android, Blackberry & Windows Phone 7 , and the Web (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Safari ) • Key Technologies • HTML5, CSS3, jQueryMobile, PhoneGap Visit http://www.healthowl.org/tour/ to watch an interactive video tour of our prototype

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