• Assessing the Potential Risks of Digital Therapeutics (DTX): The DTX Risk Assessment Canvas 

      Denecke, Kerstin; May, Richard; Gabarron, Elia; Lopez-Campos, Guillermo H. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
    • Defining and Scoping Participatory Health Informatics: An eDelphi Study 

      Denecke, Kerstin; Rivera-Romero, Octavio; Petersen, Carolyn; Benham-Hutchins, Marge; Cabrer, Miguel; Davies, Shauna; Grainger, Rebecca; Hussein, Rada; Lopez Campos, Guillermo; Martin-Sanchez, Fernando J.; McKillop, Molle; Merolli, Mark; Miron-Shatz, Talya; Trigo, Jesús Daniel; Wright, Graham; Wynn, Rolf; Hullin, Carola; Gabarron, Elia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background - Health care has evolved to support the involvement of individuals in decision making by, for example, using mobile apps and wearables that may help empower people to actively participate in their treatment and ...
    • Designing personalised mHealth solutions: An overview 

      Rivera-Romero, Octavio; Gabarron, Elia; Ropero, Jorge; Denecke, Kerstin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Introduction: Mobile health, or mHealth, is based on mobile information and communication technologies and provides solutions for empowering individuals to participate in healthcare. Personalisation techniques have been ...
    • Discussions of Asperger Syndrome on Social Media: Content and Sentiment Analysis on Twitter 

      Gabarron, Elia; Dechsling, Anders; Skafle, Ingjerd; Nordahl-Hansen, Anders (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background: On May 8, 2021, Elon Musk, a well-recognized entrepreneur and business magnate, revealed on a popular television show that he has Asperger syndrome. Research has shown that people’s perceptions of a condition ...
    • Exploring the Evolution of Social Media in Mental Health Interventions: A Mapping Review 

      Gabarron, Elia; Reichenpfader, Daniel; Denecke, Kerstin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background: With the rise of social media, social media use for delivering mental health interventions has become increasingly popular. However, there is no comprehensive overview available on how this field developed over ...
    • Misinformation about Covid-19 Vaccines on Social Media: Rapid Review 

      Skafle, Ingjerd; Nordahl-Hansen, Anders; Quintana, Daniel; Wynn, Rolf; Gabarron, Elia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background: The development of COVID-19 vaccines has been crucial in fighting the pandemic. However, misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines is spread on social media platforms at a rate that has made the ...
    • Online Attitudes and Information-Seeking Behavior on Autism, Asperger Syndrome, and Greta Thunberg. 

      Skafle, Ingjerd; Gabarron, Elia; Dechsling, Anders; Nordahl-Hansen, Anders Johan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The purpose of this study was to examine Internet trends data and sentiment in tweets mentioning autism, Asperger syndrome, and Greta Thunberg during 2019. We used mixed methods in analyzing sentiment and attitudes in viral ...
    • Personalized Digital Solutions for Mental Health 

      Ropero, Jorge; Denecke, Kerstin; Rivera-Romero, Octavio; Gabarron, Elia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Introduction: Mental health is one of the major global concerns in the field of healthcare. The emergence of digital solutions is proving to be a great aid for individuals suffering from mental health disorders. These ...
    • A scoping review of diabetes telemedicine research in Norway 

      Larbi, Dillys; Lauvhaug Nybakke, Henriette; Lind, Karianne Fredenfeldt; Rødseth, Eirin; Gabarron, Elia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The recent pandemic highlighted telemedicine’s potential for continuity of remote diabetes patients’ care. The study objective was to identify diabetes telemedicine services, benefits, and challenges in Norway. We searched ...
    • Social media as an effective provider of quality-assured and accurate information to increase vaccine rates: Systematic review 

      Hansen, Rita-Kristin; Baiju, Nikita; Gabarron, Elia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background: Vaccination programs are instrumental in prolonging and improving people’s lives by preventing diseases such as measles, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and influenza from escalating into fatal epidemics. ...
    • Social media chatbot for increasing physical activity: usability study 

      Larbi, Dillys; Gabarron, Elia; Denecke, Kerstin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Fully automated self-help interventions integrated with social media chatbots could serve as highly cost-effective physical activity promotion tools for a large population. We have developed MYA, a Telegram-based chatbot ...
    • Social media interventions for autistic individuals: systematic review 

      Gabarron, Elia; Skafle, Ingjerd; Nordahl-Hansen, Anders; Wynn, Rolf (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background: Research on the use of digital technologies for delivering behavioral interventions has shown mixed evidence on their efficacy for improving both autistic symptoms and co-occurring psychiatric disorders. Little ...
    • Social media, digital health literacy, and digital ethics in the light of health equity 

      Rivera-Romero, Octavio; Gabarron, Elia; Miron-Shatz, Talya; Petersen, Carolyn; Denecke, Kerstin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Objective: Social media is used in the context of healthcare, for example in interventions for promoting health. Since social media are easily accessible they have potential to promote health equity. This paper studies ...
    • Social media, physical activity and autism: better or bitter together? A scoping review 

      Gabarron, Elia; Henriksen, André; Nordahl-Hansen, Anders (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      This review provides an overview of the existing research on social media, autism, and physical activity. We searched for publications on PubMed, PsycInfo, Embase, Education source, ERIC, IEEE Xplore, and the proceedings ...
    • Usability Testing of a Social Media Chatbot for Increasing Physical Activity Behavior 

      Larbi, Dillys; Denecke, Kerstin; Gabarron, Elia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Digital interventions for increasing physical activity behavior have shown great potential, especially those with social media. Chatbots, also known as conversational agents, have emerged in healthcare in relation to digital ...
    • User preferences for a physical activity chatbot connected to an activity tracker and integrated into a social media platform 

      Larbi, Dillys; Sandsdalen, Helle; Gabarron, Elia; Årsand, Eirik; Henriksen, André (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Performing regular physical activity can be challenging. Integrating chatbots with social media platforms and physical activity sensors can potentially increase physical activity. The objective of this ...
    • What do adults living with obesity want from a chatbot for physical activity? – a qualitative study 

      Larbi, Dillys; Wynn, Rolf; Trondsen, Marianne Vibeke; Årsand, Eirik; Zanaboni, Paolo; Denecke, Kerstin; Gabarron, Elia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      Background Regular physical activity helps to reduce weight and improve the general well-being of individuals living with obesity. Chatbots have shown the potential to increase physical activity among their users. We aimed ...
    • What Do Autistic People Discuss on Twitter? An Approach Using BERTopic Modelling 

      Gabarron, Elia; Dorronzoro, Enrique; Reichenpfader, Daniel; Denecke, Kerstin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Social media provide easy ways to autistic individuals to communicate and to make their voices heard. The objective of this paper is to identify the main themes that are being discussed by autistic people on Twitter. We ...