FMF Connect vs My Health Coach (FASD) Usage & Stats
Families Moving Forward (FMF) Connect is a smartphone app developed for parents and caregivers raising children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
FMF Connect provides parents and caregivers useful information to help them manage their children’s condition and get peer support.
FMF Connect is based on what is called the Families Moving Forward (FMF) Program that was developed by the innovative thinker Heather Carmichael Olson and her team at Seattle Children's Research Institute and the University of Washington.
The wisdom of families and professionals, and careful university research, were all brought together to create the original program. The FMF Program has been scientifically tested and shown to help children with FASD and their families.
Thanks to researchers Christie Petrenko and Cristiano Tapparello and their team at Mt. Hope Family Center and the University of Rochester, you can now easily access this great content in the palm of your hand with the FMF Connect app!
The learning content, principles and many methods of the FMF Program have translated well to an app format, but this has also been a pretty complex process. While the content is largely the same, the intervention flow (or sequence in which it is taught) is somewhat different for the app.
This research was funded by a grant (U01 AA026104) from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism as part of the Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (CIFASD). The content is solely the responsibility of the developers and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism or the National Institutes of Health.
You can learn more about CIFASD and other research projects you may be able to participate in at https://cifasd.org/.
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My Health Coach offers adults with FASD evidence-based education about their condition and tools to promote their own self-management and health advocacy goals. My Health Coach is grounded in self-determination theory and integrates well-established behavior change strategies. It uses a just-in-time adaptive intervention design and a simple and engaging chatbot interface. This will provide adults just the right type and amount of support, when they are most receptive.
This project is a partnership with identified leaders in the adult FASD community, known as the Adult Leadership Collaborative (ALC). Their motto is: “Nothing About Us Without Us.”
This study is led by Drs. Christie Petrenko and Cristiano Tapparello. Dr. Petrenko is faculty at Mt. Hope Family Center and has appointments in the departments of Psychology and Pediatrics at the University of Rochester. Dr. Tapparello is faculty in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester and is the Director of Software Engineering at the UR Medicine Health Lab. They will oversee all research staff, implementation of human subjects’ protections, and data collection, management, analysis, and reporting.
This research is funded by a grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism as part of the Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (CIFASD). The content is solely the responsibility of the developers and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism or the National Institutes of Health.
You can learn more about CIFASD and other research projects you may be able to participate in at https://cifasd.org/.
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FMF Connect VS. 
My Health Coach (FASD)December 19, 2024