SickleBuddy

SickleBuddy is an App for children to learn and live with sickle cell disease.

Sickle Cell Disease is a red blood cell illness that some people are born with. Young people may need some help to understand sickle cell disease and look after themselves.

SickleBuddy is an App for children and adolescents with sickle cell disease to help them learn about their condition. This App was made by talking to them and finding out how it should be designed. The App has different sections with pictures that make it easy for young people to understand.

As a start, the Facts section gives information about sickle cell disease, and how it affects children and adolescents including pain and other problems.

There is a section for keeping Healthy with Tips about medicines and other things doctors and nurses usually tell young people with sickle cell disease to do.

Another section has Ideas about things that can be done to keep Healthy such as eating well, and taking it easy when worried or unhappy.

The App also has a Quiz to help make it easier to remember the important things about sickle cell disease that have been learnt.

Privacy Policy:

SickleBuddy is a free App provided at no cost and is intended for use as is. No Personal Identifiable Information is collected from any child or adult that use it, and the app does use any third party services that collect information or log data. The app contains a link to other websites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are independent of the app. Therefore, it is strongly advised that you review the Privacy Policy of these websites. The developer of the SickleBuddy app has no control over and assumes no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites or services.