Brain, Cognition and Behavior: Clinical Research, Consorci Sanitari de Terrassa, 08227 Terrasa, Spain.
Department of Health, Blekinge Institute of Technology, SE-371 79 Karlskrona, Sweden.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Sep 18;17(18):6816. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17186816.
Population ageing within Europe has major social and economic consequences. One of the most devastating conditions that predominantly affects older people is dementia. The SMART4MD (Support Monitoring and Reminder Technology for Mild Dementia) project aims to develop and test a health application specifically designed for people with mild dementia. The aim of this feasibility study was to evaluate the design of the SMART4MD protocol, including recruitment, screening, baseline examination and data management, and to test the SMART4MD application for functionality and usability before utilization in a full-scale study. The feasibility study tested the protocol and the app in Spain and Sweden. A total of nineteen persons with cognitive impairment, and their informal caregivers, individually performed a task-based usability test of the SMART4MD app model in a clinical environment, followed by four-week testing of the app in the home environment. By employing a user-centered design approach, the SMART4MD application proved to be an adequate and feasible interface for an eHealth intervention. In the final usability test, a score of 81% satisfied users was obtained. The possibility to test the application in all the procedures included in the study generated important information on how to present the technology to the users and how to improve these procedures.
欧洲人口老龄化带来了重大的社会和经济后果。其中对老年人影响最大的破坏性疾病之一是痴呆症。SMART4MD(轻度痴呆症支持监测和提醒技术)项目旨在开发和测试一款专门为轻度痴呆症患者设计的健康应用程序。这项可行性研究的目的是评估 SMART4MD 方案的设计,包括招募、筛选、基线检查和数据管理,并在全面研究中使用之前,测试 SMART4MD 应用程序的功能和可用性。这项可行性研究在西班牙和瑞典测试了该方案和应用程序。共有 19 名认知障碍患者及其非正式护理人员在临床环境中对 SMART4MD 应用模型进行了基于任务的可用性测试,然后在家庭环境中对该应用程序进行了为期四周的测试。通过采用以用户为中心的设计方法,SMART4MD 应用程序被证明是一种合适且可行的电子健康干预接口。在最终的可用性测试中,获得了 81%满意用户的评分。有机会在研究中包含的所有程序中测试该应用程序,为如何向用户展示技术以及如何改进这些程序提供了重要信息。
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