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A Health eLearning Ontology and Procedural Reasoning Approach for Developing Personalized Courses to Teach Patients about Their Medical Condition and Treatment

We propose a methodological framework to support the development of personalized courses that improve patients’ understanding of their condition and prescribed treatment. Inspired by Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs), the framework uses an eLearning ontology to express domain and learner models an...

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Autores principales: Michalowski, Martin, Wilk, Szymon, Michalowski, Wojtek, O’Sullivan, Dympna, Bonaccio, Silvia, Parimbelli, Enea, Carrier, Marc, Le Gal, Grégoire, Kingwell, Stephen, Peleg, Mor
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8307382/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34299806
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18147355
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author Michalowski, Martin
Wilk, Szymon
Michalowski, Wojtek
O’Sullivan, Dympna
Bonaccio, Silvia
Parimbelli, Enea
Carrier, Marc
Le Gal, Grégoire
Kingwell, Stephen
Peleg, Mor
author_facet Michalowski, Martin
Wilk, Szymon
Michalowski, Wojtek
O’Sullivan, Dympna
Bonaccio, Silvia
Parimbelli, Enea
Carrier, Marc
Le Gal, Grégoire
Kingwell, Stephen
Peleg, Mor
author_sort Michalowski, Martin
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description We propose a methodological framework to support the development of personalized courses that improve patients’ understanding of their condition and prescribed treatment. Inspired by Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs), the framework uses an eLearning ontology to express domain and learner models and to create a course. We combine the ontology with a procedural reasoning approach and precompiled plans to operationalize a design across disease conditions. The resulting courses generated by the framework are personalized across four patient axes—condition and treatment, comprehension level, learning style based on the VARK (Visual, Aural, Read/write, Kinesthetic) presentation model, and the level of understanding of specific course content according to Bloom’s taxonomy. Customizing educational materials along these learning axes stimulates and sustains patients’ attention when learning about their conditions or treatment options. Our proposed framework creates a personalized course that prepares patients for their meetings with specialists and educates them about their prescribed treatment. We posit that the improvement in patients’ understanding of prescribed care will result in better outcomes and we validate that the constructs of our framework are appropriate for representing content and deriving personalized courses for two use cases: anticoagulation treatment of an atrial fibrillation patient and lower back pain management to treat a lumbar degenerative disc condition. We conduct a mostly qualitative study supported by a quantitative questionnaire to investigate the acceptability of the framework among the target patient population and medical practitioners.
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spelling pubmed-83073822021-07-25 A Health eLearning Ontology and Procedural Reasoning Approach for Developing Personalized Courses to Teach Patients about Their Medical Condition and Treatment Michalowski, Martin Wilk, Szymon Michalowski, Wojtek O’Sullivan, Dympna Bonaccio, Silvia Parimbelli, Enea Carrier, Marc Le Gal, Grégoire Kingwell, Stephen Peleg, Mor Int J Environ Res Public Health Article We propose a methodological framework to support the development of personalized courses that improve patients’ understanding of their condition and prescribed treatment. Inspired by Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs), the framework uses an eLearning ontology to express domain and learner models and to create a course. We combine the ontology with a procedural reasoning approach and precompiled plans to operationalize a design across disease conditions. The resulting courses generated by the framework are personalized across four patient axes—condition and treatment, comprehension level, learning style based on the VARK (Visual, Aural, Read/write, Kinesthetic) presentation model, and the level of understanding of specific course content according to Bloom’s taxonomy. Customizing educational materials along these learning axes stimulates and sustains patients’ attention when learning about their conditions or treatment options. Our proposed framework creates a personalized course that prepares patients for their meetings with specialists and educates them about their prescribed treatment. We posit that the improvement in patients’ understanding of prescribed care will result in better outcomes and we validate that the constructs of our framework are appropriate for representing content and deriving personalized courses for two use cases: anticoagulation treatment of an atrial fibrillation patient and lower back pain management to treat a lumbar degenerative disc condition. We conduct a mostly qualitative study supported by a quantitative questionnaire to investigate the acceptability of the framework among the target patient population and medical practitioners. MDPI 2021-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8307382/ /pubmed/34299806 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18147355 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Michalowski, Martin
Wilk, Szymon
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O’Sullivan, Dympna
Bonaccio, Silvia
Parimbelli, Enea
Carrier, Marc
Le Gal, Grégoire
Kingwell, Stephen
Peleg, Mor
A Health eLearning Ontology and Procedural Reasoning Approach for Developing Personalized Courses to Teach Patients about Their Medical Condition and Treatment
title A Health eLearning Ontology and Procedural Reasoning Approach for Developing Personalized Courses to Teach Patients about Their Medical Condition and Treatment
title_full A Health eLearning Ontology and Procedural Reasoning Approach for Developing Personalized Courses to Teach Patients about Their Medical Condition and Treatment
title_fullStr A Health eLearning Ontology and Procedural Reasoning Approach for Developing Personalized Courses to Teach Patients about Their Medical Condition and Treatment
title_full_unstemmed A Health eLearning Ontology and Procedural Reasoning Approach for Developing Personalized Courses to Teach Patients about Their Medical Condition and Treatment
title_short A Health eLearning Ontology and Procedural Reasoning Approach for Developing Personalized Courses to Teach Patients about Their Medical Condition and Treatment
title_sort health elearning ontology and procedural reasoning approach for developing personalized courses to teach patients about their medical condition and treatment
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8307382/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34299806
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18147355
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