The goal of my work is the design and development of a cross platform mobile application for cancer screening and for the management of primary prevention procedures even for those organs for which there is no screening program. The application is capable of to notify any delays in booking recommended exams and for their direct management, such as creating reminders and entering results. This system must also ensure greater user awareness by providing useful information to understand the screening and prevention procedures with the aim of increasing adherence to such programs. The project was developed in collaboration with a scientific committee made up of professors, medical specialists and general practitioners. First of all I had to define the functional and not functional requirements and after I had to choose the framework for the development of the application and the cloud platform. The platform is used to implement the backend side services to manage and store data and the algorithms necessary for the functioning of the system. Furthermore the economic impact deriving from their usage was considered. In a first phase of development, I had to design and code the algorithms deriving from the ministerial guidelines for screening programs and the algorithm for calculating cardiovascular risk. Once the algorithms were defined, I had to develop the application features for retrieving the information necessary to calculate the recommended date for carrying out the prevention exam and all those features necessary for creating reminders and entering the results. In order to increase awareness and improve user behavior towards proper prevention, I had to design a gamification and rewarding system contextualized in the context of primary prevention. The application also considers psychological information through which it regulates the content offered to users. For this purpose I had to code two algorithms that allow you to profile the user according to his locus of control and according to his tendency to be depressed, anxious and stressed. Finally, I had to deal with data security by taking all the necessary measures to ensure compliance with the rules imposed on privacy and the processing of personal data. As a final result of my work, I got an application that meets all the requirements and is ready to be tested on a focus group defined with the help of the scientific committee.
L' obiettivo del mio lavoro è la progettazione e lo sviluppo di un'applicazione mobile cross platform per lo screening dei tumori e per la gestione delle procedure di prevenzione primaria anche per quegli organi per i quali non esiste un programma di screening. L'applicazione è in grado di segnalare eventuali ritardi nella prenotazione degli esami consigliati e per la loro gestione diretta, come la creazione di promemoria e l'inserimento dei risultati. Questo sistema deve inoltre garantire una maggiore consapevolezza degli utenti fornendo informazioni utili per comprendere le procedure di screening e prevenzione con l'obiettivo di aumentare l'adesione a tali programmi. Il progetto è stato sviluppato in collaborazione con un comitato scientifico composto da professori, medici specialisti e medici di base. Prima di tutto ho dovuto definire i requisiti funzionali e non funzionali per poi scegliere il framework per lo sviluppo dell'applicazione e della piattaforma cloud. La piattaforma viene utilizzata per implementare i servizi di backend side per la gestione e l'archiviazione dei dati e degli algoritmi necessari al funzionamento del sistema. Inoltre è stato considerato l'impatto economico derivante dal loro utilizzo. In una prima fase di sviluppo ho dovuto progettare e codificare gli algoritmi derivanti dalle linee guida ministeriali per i programmi di screening e l'algoritmo per il calcolo del rischio cardiovascolare. Una volta definiti gli algoritmi, ho dovuto sviluppare le funzionalità dell'applicazione per il recupero delle informazioni necessarie per calcolare la data consigliata per lo svolgimento dell'esame di prevenzione e tutte quelle funzionalità necessarie per la creazione dei promemoria e l'inserimento dei risultati. Al fine di aumentare la consapevolezza e migliorare il comportamento degli utenti verso una corretta prevenzione, ho dovuto progettare un sistema di gamification e premiazione contestualizzato nella prevenzione primaria. L'applicazione considera anche le informazioni psicologiche attraverso le quali regola i contenuti offerti agli utenti. A tal fine ho dovuto codificare due algoritmi che permettessero di profilare l'utente in base al suo locus of control e in base alla sua tendenza ad essere depresso, ansioso e stressato. Infine, ho dovuto occuparmi della sicurezza dei dati adottando tutte le misure necessarie per garantire il rispetto delle regole imposte sulla privacy e sul trattamento dei dati personali. Come risultato finale del mio lavoro, ho ottenuto un'applicazione che soddisfa tutti i requisiti ed è pronta per essere testata su un focus group definito con l'aiuto del comitato scientifico.
Progettazione e sviluppo di un'applicazione multipiattaforma per lo screening oncologico e la gestione della prevenzione delle malattie
ROGLEDI, MATTIA
2019/2020
Abstract
The goal of my work is the design and development of a cross platform mobile application for cancer screening and for the management of primary prevention procedures even for those organs for which there is no screening program. The application is capable of to notify any delays in booking recommended exams and for their direct management, such as creating reminders and entering results. This system must also ensure greater user awareness by providing useful information to understand the screening and prevention procedures with the aim of increasing adherence to such programs. The project was developed in collaboration with a scientific committee made up of professors, medical specialists and general practitioners. First of all I had to define the functional and not functional requirements and after I had to choose the framework for the development of the application and the cloud platform. The platform is used to implement the backend side services to manage and store data and the algorithms necessary for the functioning of the system. Furthermore the economic impact deriving from their usage was considered. In a first phase of development, I had to design and code the algorithms deriving from the ministerial guidelines for screening programs and the algorithm for calculating cardiovascular risk. Once the algorithms were defined, I had to develop the application features for retrieving the information necessary to calculate the recommended date for carrying out the prevention exam and all those features necessary for creating reminders and entering the results. In order to increase awareness and improve user behavior towards proper prevention, I had to design a gamification and rewarding system contextualized in the context of primary prevention. The application also considers psychological information through which it regulates the content offered to users. For this purpose I had to code two algorithms that allow you to profile the user according to his locus of control and according to his tendency to be depressed, anxious and stressed. Finally, I had to deal with data security by taking all the necessary measures to ensure compliance with the rules imposed on privacy and the processing of personal data. As a final result of my work, I got an application that meets all the requirements and is ready to be tested on a focus group defined with the help of the scientific committee.È consentito all'utente scaricare e condividere i documenti disponibili a testo pieno in UNITESI UNIPV nel rispetto della licenza Creative Commons del tipo CC BY NC ND.
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