Wearable cameras used to improve support
Revealing the truth behind self-care
05 May 2023
Increasingly, people with chronic conditions are expected to take care of their health outside of medical settings. Self-care is widely promoted to empower patients, improve health outcomes, and reduce constraints on the overstretched health system. However, many individuals living with chronic conditions struggle to practise self-management effectively. They also do not always self-report how they are managing accurately due for instance to recall bias.
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n order to obtain a first-person point of view, researchers from the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, used wearable cameras to capture daily activities of people with Type 2 diabetes and comorbidities with the aim of designing better support. This world-first research, led by Dr Annie Lau, was published in BMJ Open and the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).
Read more about this research program in the latest edition of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association magazine, The Health Advocate.
Caption: An example of deidentified images from a wearable camera
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