{"id":50208,"date":"2021-12-13T11:38:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T16:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/?p=50208"},"modified":"2021-12-13T11:44:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T16:44:05","slug":"tracking-of-personal-digital-health-among-parkinsons-patients-examined-in-psychology-pharmacy-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/2021\/12\/13\/tracking-of-personal-digital-health-among-parkinsons-patients-examined-in-psychology-pharmacy-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking of personal digital health among Parkinson\u2019s patients examined in Psychology, Pharmacy study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The use of self-tracking of bio-behavioral states along with prescription dosing information is increasingly popular in the care and study of many human diseases. Parkinson\u2019s Disease is particularly amenable to such tracking, as patients live with the progressive disease for many years, increasing motivation to pursue quality of life changes through careful monitoring of symptoms and self-guided management of their medications and lifestyle choices.<\/p>\n<p>Students in URI Psychology Professor Theodore Walls\u2019 lab, the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chmi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Center for Health Monitoring and Intervention<\/a>, collaborated on a qualitative exploration of how Parkinson\u2019s patients and their families have engaged&nbsp;in self-tracking of their&nbsp;symptoms and medications.&nbsp;Walls is an internationally known expert on intensive longitudinal data, the kind of data considered in this study.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Graduate student Coral Shuster (Psychology) and&nbsp;undergraduate&nbsp;Aidan Boving (Cell and Molecular Biology and Health Studies&nbsp;double major) worked with Walls and Phamacy Professor Todd Brothers to synthesize themes of the patients\u2019 self-tracking research in relation to typical Parkinson\u2019s medication dosage and symptom patterns.&nbsp;The article chronicles and provides commentary on the work of three Parkinson\u2019s patients engaging in scientific self-study of their conditions, part of a new scientific trend of citizens studying themselves.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As an open access publication in the journal <em>Digital Health<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/20552076211061925\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the article is available to download free-of-charge here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of self-tracking of bio-behavioral states along with prescription dosing information is increasingly popular in the care and study of many human diseases. Parkinson\u2019s Disease is particularly amenable to such tracking, as patients live with the progressive disease for many years, increasing motivation to pursue quality of life changes through careful monitoring of symptoms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1710,"featured_media":50211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50210,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50208\/revisions\/50210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}