The European MyPal study:
Developing digital health for adults and children with cancer
This eBook presents the technical, ethical and practical insights, as well as preliminary outcomes, from the MyPal study.
Contents:
- Foreword (Christoph Ostgathe)
- Executive summary (Sheila Payne, Dunja Begović, Yakubu Salifu)
- A tribute to an exceptional individual – Vassilis Koutkias (Christina Karamanidou, Pantelis Natsiavas, Kostas Stamatopoulos)
- Introduction: Background to the MyPal project and rationale for the use of ePROs in digital health (Pantelis Natsiavas, Christina Karamanidou)
- Chapter 1: Summary of the literature (Christina Karamanidou, Pantelis Natsiavas)
- Chapter 2: The ethical approach of the MyPal digital health intervention (Tina Garani-Papadatos, Dunja Begović)
- Chapter 3: The MyPal-Adult system: Design and development of technical aspects (Fatima Schera, Lefteris Koumakis)
- Chapter 4: The MyPal-Child serious game app for children with cancer: Design and development (Robert Schraut, Malin Sweers, Stefan Hoffman, Wiebke Scholz, Thomas Kröll)
- Chapter 5: The MyPal-Adult study: Design and preliminary outcomes (Lydia Scarfò, Paolo Ghia)
- Chapter 6: The MyPal-Child study: Design and preliminary outcomes (Marcel Meyerheim, Anna Burns-Gebhart, Annette Sander, Norbert Graf)
- Chapter 7: Patient reported outcomes and their role in palliative care for patients with cancer: Conclusions from the MyPal project (Christina Karamanidou, Pantelis Natsiavas, Kostas Stamatopoulos)
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix 1: Glossary of abbreviations
- Appendix 2: MyPal project – list of publications