A New Electronic Monitoring Device to Measure Medication Adherence: Usability of the Helping Hand™

The aim of this study was to test the user performance, satisfaction and acceptability of the Helping Hand™ (B&O Medicom) electronic medication adherence monitor. Using a mixed-method design, we studied 11 kidney transplant patients and 10 healthy volunteers during three weeks. Although testing...

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Autores principales: De Bleser, Leentje, Vincke, Birgit, Dobbels, Fabienne, Happ, Mary Beth, Maes, Bart, Vanhaecke, Johan, De Geest, Sabina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3264437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22294885
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s100301535
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author De Bleser, Leentje
Vincke, Birgit
Dobbels, Fabienne
Happ, Mary Beth
Maes, Bart
Vanhaecke, Johan
De Geest, Sabina
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description The aim of this study was to test the user performance, satisfaction and acceptability of the Helping Hand™ (B&O Medicom) electronic medication adherence monitor. Using a mixed-method design, we studied 11 kidney transplant patients and 10 healthy volunteers during three weeks. Although testing showed positive usability aspects, several areas requiring technical improvement were identified: the most important obstacles to usability and acceptability were the weak sound signal, problems loading the medication, and the fact that only one medication could be used at a time.
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spelling pubmed-32644372012-01-31 A New Electronic Monitoring Device to Measure Medication Adherence: Usability of the Helping Hand™ De Bleser, Leentje Vincke, Birgit Dobbels, Fabienne Happ, Mary Beth Maes, Bart Vanhaecke, Johan De Geest, Sabina Sensors (Basel) Article The aim of this study was to test the user performance, satisfaction and acceptability of the Helping Hand™ (B&O Medicom) electronic medication adherence monitor. Using a mixed-method design, we studied 11 kidney transplant patients and 10 healthy volunteers during three weeks. Although testing showed positive usability aspects, several areas requiring technical improvement were identified: the most important obstacles to usability and acceptability were the weak sound signal, problems loading the medication, and the fact that only one medication could be used at a time. Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2010-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3264437/ /pubmed/22294885 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s100301535 Text en © 2010 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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De Bleser, Leentje
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A New Electronic Monitoring Device to Measure Medication Adherence: Usability of the Helping Hand™
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