Descrizione del progetto
Fornire gli strumenti utili al cambiamento per una migliore prevenzione del tumore al seno
Nella lotta contro il tumore al seno (TS), la prevenzione primaria e secondaria rappresentano una grande sfida, poiché le abitudini di vita non salutari aumentano il rischio di sviluppare questa malattia. Interventi personalizzati sullo stile di vita, attraverso l’uso di strumenti digitali che aiutino le donne ad adottare abitudini più sane, potrebbero ridurre il rischio di TS in modo conveniente. Alla luce di tali premesse, il progetto MELIORA, finanziato dall’UE, si propone di trasformare la prevenzione del TS in Grecia, Lituania, Spagna e Svezia. In particolare, svolgerà otto studi di intervento su misura che usano l’intelligenza artificiale e gli strumenti digitali su donne sane a rischio di TS, su pazienti e su donne sopravvissute. Il progetto, che coinvolgerà 2 000 donne provenienti da contesti socio-economici diversi, valuterà l’efficacia e identificherà gli ostacoli ai cambiamenti comportamentali sostenibili. Nell’ambito del cluster Cancer Mission, MELIORA invita le parti interessate a indagare la potenziale adozione di questi interventi in tutta Europa.
Obiettivo
MELIORA Consortium will jointly work with local actors at different levels for the realization of eight (8) in total tailor-made lifestyle intervention and behavioural modification studies, including Artificial intelligence and digital tools, to promote sustainable behavioural changes among three target populations: i) healthy women at risk of developing breast cancer, ii) breast cancer patients and iii) breast cancer survivors. The studies will take place across 4 different European countries (Greece, Sweden, Spain and Lithuania) and 6 piloting centres targeting 2000 women in urban and rural areas including participants throughout the socioeconomic spectrum. Primary health care centres, hospitals or patients’/survivors’ organisations will be used as entry points to the community. The goal of the MELIORA Virtual Coach interventions is to evaluate its effectiveness, through assessing the effect of multiple individual and contextual factors to the uptake and sustainability of behavioural changes. At the same time, identification of specific bottlenecks and barriers that prevent the uptake of sustainable behavioural change will support the development of approaches on how to best reach and involve disadvantaged socio-economic population groups, vulnerable groups, and people living in rural areas, and will provide best practices for behavioural intervention uptake and scale-up. Regular monitoring will be ongoing during the implementation to allow corrective actions and ensure effective adaptation and uptake. Based on the study outcomes, the health economic evaluation and budget impact analysis, and data deriving from the scalability assessment, national and European stakeholders will be invited to evaluate, through workshops, the potential for adoption of the MELIORA Virtual Coach Interventions in other regions or countries in Europe.
This action is part of the Cancer Mission cluster of projects on “Prevention & early detection (behavioural change).
Campo scientifico
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.2.1 - Health Main Programme
Argomento(i)
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinatore
176 71 ATHINA
Grecia