Department of Educational Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2098, USA.
J Intellect Disabil Res. 2010 Sep;54(9):843-59. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2010.01314.x.
Onsite standard care and remote telecare supports were provided to adults with intellectual disabilities living in integrated community settings and evaluated in terms of effectiveness as consumers completed a series of novel household activities.
Using an alternating treatment design with baseline and follow-up conditions in this single-case study, investigators compared the prompting effectiveness provided by onsite standard care staff and a remote telecare provider.
While both types of supports resulted in consumers completing tasks, results indicated consumers achieved slightly more independence when prompted by the telecare support provider. Additionally, telecare supports resulted in greater duration for task completion per consumer.
Although consumers completed tasks with greater independence using telecare supports, caution should be used when interpreting results due to the small number of participants. The potential for this technology certainly exists in supporting consumers in their own homes thus, suggestions for future investigations are provided.
为居住在社区融合环境中的成年智障人士提供现场标准护理和远程远程护理支持，并根据消费者完成一系列新的家庭活动的效果进行评估。
在这项单案例研究中，使用交替治疗设计，在基线和随访条件下，研究人员比较了现场标准护理人员和远程远程护理提供者提供的提示效果。
虽然两种类型的支持都使消费者完成了任务，但结果表明，当受到远程护理支持提供者的提示时，消费者的独立性略有提高。此外，远程护理支持使每位消费者完成任务的时间延长。
尽管消费者在使用远程护理支持时更独立地完成了任务，但由于参与者人数较少，在解释结果时应谨慎。该技术在支持消费者在家中生活方面确实具有潜力，因此提供了对未来研究的建议。
