The primary aim was to evaluate women's engagement and the viability of content delivery on breast cancer education through a WhatsApp group. Therefore, this study aimed to provide evidence for the utility and effectiveness of this mobile health technology to improve women's knowledge regarding the risk reduction and early detection of breast cancer. ĭespite the popularity of WhatsApp and its promising potential in health education and health care strategies, only few studies have evaluated the effectiveness of using this app to convey health information for user empowerment purposes. Moreover, it is the most downloaded app in the world, is free, and has a user-friendly interface, and it accounts for about 20% of total smartphone use. Contacts are able to see when other users are online and typing, as well as their last access. The app offers additional social information to its users when compared with SMS text messaging. It is an instant messaging app for smartphones that enables users to send voice, text, video, or location using the group communication feature.
Evidence for individuals who use health self-management apps points to positive results and reinforces the viability of using this technology in health promotion strategies.Īmong the apps with the potential for use in health education interventions, WhatsApp (WhatsApp Inc) stands out. Indeed, smartphones and their apps have been used to spread health information, including information for breast cancer care. The wide availability and functionality of mobile devices have made them great tools for planning, executing, and evaluating health interventions. Educational interventions mediated by mobile technologies represent alternatives to be explored in the practice of health promotion for their convenience and ubiquity, and for minimizing the barriers of distance, cost, and time. Nevertheless, the limitations of population awareness regarding the relevance of early diagnosis and preventive behavior constitute major barriers to the effectiveness of these actions. Ĭonsidering financial constraints, it is suggested that the most prudent action to be applied in cancer control is the guarantee of early diagnosis and access to treatment without delay. However, the adoption of such strategies requires high infrastructure and human resource investments, which are below the capacity of low- and middle-income countries. Mortality reduction in many developed countries has been occurring after the implementation of organized screening of precursor lesions associated with more effective therapies. The mortality rates associated with this malignancy are higher in low- and middle-income countries owing to early diagnosis deficiencies and low access to treatment. We hope that this puts an end to blocks that have punished millions of Brazilians and that people can continue using services like WhatsApp to stay in touch with those who matter to them.Breast cancer represents the main cause of death by cancer among women around the world. In his decision, the chief justice stressed how people from across Brazil, including members of the judiciary, rely on WhatsApp to communicate with others every day, and that they bear the greatest burden when a service is blocked. “The Supreme Court swiftly rejected today’s block, finding that it was disproportionate and violated people’s fundamental freedom of expression. “We’re pleased that people can access WhatsApp again in Brazil,” a company spokesman said.
Hours later, a separate judge lifted the restrictions on that grounds that “it does not seem reasonable that millions of users are affected” because of the company’s wrongdoing. Whatsapp was also briefly blocked in December after an order by a judge in São Paulo. In February, a judge from north-eastern state of Alagoas made a similar ruling in a separate investigation, but the order was overturned hours later. In a post on Facebook, WhatsApp’s CEO, Jan Koum, said: “It’s shocking that less than two months after Brazilian people and lawmakers loudly rejected blocks of services like WhatsApp, history is repeating itself.” Her decision said Facebook was repeatedly asked to intercept messages sent through the service to help in a criminal investigation in the city of Caxias, outside Rio.īut hours later, her ruling was reversed by supreme court president Ricardo Lewandowski, who said that it seemed “scarcely reasonable or proportional.”
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