A virtual coaching platform to support therapy compliance in obesity

Luisa Bissoli, Davide Bonacina, Nicoló Dalla Riva, Florenc Demrozi, Marin Jereghi, Nicola Marchiotto, Giovanni Perbellini, Bruno Pernice, Graziano Pravadelli, Giuseppe Recchia, Anna Lia Sacerdoti, Cristian Turetta, Mauro Zamboni

2022 IEEE 46th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), Pages 694-699, May 2022

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Abstract

Obesity is a real health emergency with significant consequences for individuals and society, reducing expectations and quality of life or even the death for 2.8 million people each year. Being a chronic condition with limited pharmacological options, weight loss therapies are mainly based on dietary and cognitive-behavioral interventions delivered at specialist public and/or private centers. In order to promote and facilitate weight loss, this paper proposes a virtual coaching system to motivate and guide the patients during the therapy and to support the clinicians in monitoring its effectiveness. The system has three components: a) the clinician's web application, which is used to monitor and modify the therapy for each patient; b) a mobile application for patients, used to log nutrition intakes and physical activities, and to consult motivational documents/videos; and c) a cloud server, which collects data and implements smart monitoring features. The platform is adopted in a clinical trial involving 120 patients with obesity (Body Mass Index 2> 30) that has recently started.

Bibtex

@INPROCEEDINGS{9842483,
  author={Bissoli, Luisa and Bonacina, Davide and Riva, Nicoló Dalla and Demrozi, Florenc and Jereghi, Marin and Marchiotto, Nicola and Perbellini, Giovanni and Pernice, Bruno and Pizzocaro, Erica and Pravadelli, Graziano and Recchia, Giuseppe and Sacerdoti, Anna Lia and Turetta, Cristian and Zamboni, Mauro},
  booktitle={2022 IEEE 46th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)}, 
  title={A virtual coaching platform to support therapy compliance in obesity}, 
  abstract={Obesity is a real health emergency with significant consequences for individuals and society, reducing expectations and quality of life or even the death for 2.8 million people each year. Being a chronic condition with limited pharmacological options, weight loss therapies are mainly based on dietary and cognitive-behavioral interventions delivered at specialist public and/or private centers. In order to promote and facilitate weight loss, this paper proposes a virtual coaching system to motivate and guide the patients during the therapy and to support the clinicians in monitoring its effectiveness. The system has three components: a) the clinician's web application, which is used to monitor and modify the therapy for each patient; b) a mobile application for patients, used to log nutrition intakes and physical activities, and to consult motivational documents/videos; and c) a cloud server, which collects data and implements smart monitoring features. The platform is adopted in a clinical trial involving 120 patients with obesity (Body Mass Index 2> 30) that has recently started.},
  year={2022},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={694-699}
  }