KidneYou - Innovative Digital Therapy

KidneYou is a medical device designed to deliver digital therapy (DT) to patients. The DT utilizes high quality digital technologies to stimulate lifestyle changes in patients. KidneYou has been set up to improve the commitment of patients in following therapeutic directives (i.e. nutritional programs, daily/weekly physical activities) to manage their chronic diseases like CKD. Moreover, KidneYou can improve patient's awareness about his/her disease (mindfulness) so as to increase the individual human ability to be fully present at the ongoing disease's condition and react to it in active and positive manner. Particularly, the mindfulness program contained in this App has been designed to increase the patient's psychological and mental health, aiming at decreasing the perceived stress due to the underlying disease and to the attempts of life-style changes (i.e., healthy diet and physical activity) which may initially negatively affect the subject's natural attitudes.