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A Mobile Application to Assist Alzheimer’s Caregivers During COVID-19 Pandemic: Development and Evaluation

INTRODUCTION: Access to healthcare services for patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) was limited during the COVID-19 pandemic. A mobile application (app) can help overcome this limitation for patients and caregivers. Our study aims to develop and evaluate an app to help caregivers of patients with...

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Autores principales: Amiri, Parastoo, Gholipour, Maryam, Hajesmaeel-Gohari, Sadrieh, Bahaadinbeigy, Kambiz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tabriz University of Medical Sciences 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10352638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37469754
http://dx.doi.org/10.34172/jcs.2023.30679
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author Amiri, Parastoo
Gholipour, Maryam
Hajesmaeel-Gohari, Sadrieh
Bahaadinbeigy, Kambiz
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Gholipour, Maryam
Hajesmaeel-Gohari, Sadrieh
Bahaadinbeigy, Kambiz
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description INTRODUCTION: Access to healthcare services for patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) was limited during the COVID-19 pandemic. A mobile application (app) can help overcome this limitation for patients and caregivers. Our study aims to develop and evaluate an app to help caregivers of patients with AD during COVID-19. METHODS: The study was performed in three steps. First, a questionnaire of features required for the app design was prepared based on the interviews with caregivers of AD patients and neurologists. Then, questionnaire was provided to neurologists, medical informatics, and health information management specialists to identify the final features. Second, the app was designed using the information obtained from the previous phase. Third, the quality of the app and the level of user satisfaction were evaluated using the mobile app rating scale (MARS) and the questionnaire for user interface satisfaction (QUIS), respectively. RESULTS: The number of 41 data elements in four groups (patient’s profile, COVID-19 management and control, AD management and control, and program functions) were identified for designing the app. The quality evaluation of the app based on MARS and user satisfaction evaluation based on QUIS showed the app was good. CONCLUSION: This is the first study that focused on developing and evaluating a mobile app for assisting Alzheimer’s caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the app was designed based on users’ needs and covered both information about AD and COVID-19, it can help caregivers perform their tasks more efficiently.
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spelling pubmed-103526382023-07-19 A Mobile Application to Assist Alzheimer’s Caregivers During COVID-19 Pandemic: Development and Evaluation Amiri, Parastoo Gholipour, Maryam Hajesmaeel-Gohari, Sadrieh Bahaadinbeigy, Kambiz J Caring Sci Original Article INTRODUCTION: Access to healthcare services for patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) was limited during the COVID-19 pandemic. A mobile application (app) can help overcome this limitation for patients and caregivers. Our study aims to develop and evaluate an app to help caregivers of patients with AD during COVID-19. METHODS: The study was performed in three steps. First, a questionnaire of features required for the app design was prepared based on the interviews with caregivers of AD patients and neurologists. Then, questionnaire was provided to neurologists, medical informatics, and health information management specialists to identify the final features. Second, the app was designed using the information obtained from the previous phase. Third, the quality of the app and the level of user satisfaction were evaluated using the mobile app rating scale (MARS) and the questionnaire for user interface satisfaction (QUIS), respectively. RESULTS: The number of 41 data elements in four groups (patient’s profile, COVID-19 management and control, AD management and control, and program functions) were identified for designing the app. The quality evaluation of the app based on MARS and user satisfaction evaluation based on QUIS showed the app was good. CONCLUSION: This is the first study that focused on developing and evaluating a mobile app for assisting Alzheimer’s caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the app was designed based on users’ needs and covered both information about AD and COVID-19, it can help caregivers perform their tasks more efficiently. Tabriz University of Medical Sciences 2023-05-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10352638/ /pubmed/37469754 http://dx.doi.org/10.34172/jcs.2023.30679 Text en © 2023 The Author(s). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This work is published by Journal of Caring Sciences as an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Amiri, Parastoo
Gholipour, Maryam
Hajesmaeel-Gohari, Sadrieh
Bahaadinbeigy, Kambiz
A Mobile Application to Assist Alzheimer’s Caregivers During COVID-19 Pandemic: Development and Evaluation
title A Mobile Application to Assist Alzheimer’s Caregivers During COVID-19 Pandemic: Development and Evaluation
title_full A Mobile Application to Assist Alzheimer’s Caregivers During COVID-19 Pandemic: Development and Evaluation
title_fullStr A Mobile Application to Assist Alzheimer’s Caregivers During COVID-19 Pandemic: Development and Evaluation
title_full_unstemmed A Mobile Application to Assist Alzheimer’s Caregivers During COVID-19 Pandemic: Development and Evaluation
title_short A Mobile Application to Assist Alzheimer’s Caregivers During COVID-19 Pandemic: Development and Evaluation
title_sort mobile application to assist alzheimer’s caregivers during covid-19 pandemic: development and evaluation
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10352638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37469754
http://dx.doi.org/10.34172/jcs.2023.30679
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