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Existing Mobile Phone Apps for Self-Care Management of People With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias: Systematic Analysis
BACKGROUND: Alzheimer disease and related dementias (AD/RD) are progressive neurocognitive disorders that currently affect approximately 50 million people worldwide. Mobile phone apps have been well-integrated into daily lives and can be used to deliver and promote health care. There is an increase...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7007594/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32012045 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/15290 |
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author | Guo, Yuqi Yang, Fan Hu, Fei Li, Wei Ruggiano, Nicole Lee, Hee Yun |
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description | BACKGROUND: Alzheimer disease and related dementias (AD/RD) are progressive neurocognitive disorders that currently affect approximately 50 million people worldwide. Mobile phone apps have been well-integrated into daily lives and can be used to deliver and promote health care. There is an increase in the use of technology to provide care and support to AD/RD patients and their families. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to review apps designed for AD/RD patients and analyze the benefits of, and challenges to, such technological solutions. METHODS: A systematic approach was applied to review the availability, content, features, and quality of mobile phone apps to support self-care among AD/RD patients. RESULTS: The initial search for this review was conducted in January 2019, and the screening and analysis of the included apps were completed in May 2019. A total of 14 apps were included from an initial search of 245 apps. The top 3 features were alert (9/14, 64%), self-care tips (6/14, 42%), and social networking capacity (5/14, 35%). On average, the readability of the apps was a tenth-grade reading level (SD 3.06). The overall quality was 3.71 out of 5 (SD 1.37). CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that currently available apps for AD/RD patients may not meet complex needs and may be challenging to use, given the possible impaired communication ability associated with AD/RD. Therefore, high-quality apps need to be developed and rigorously evaluated for feasibility and efficacy. |
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spelling | pubmed-70075942020-03-05 Existing Mobile Phone Apps for Self-Care Management of People With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias: Systematic Analysis Guo, Yuqi Yang, Fan Hu, Fei Li, Wei Ruggiano, Nicole Lee, Hee Yun JMIR Aging Original Paper BACKGROUND: Alzheimer disease and related dementias (AD/RD) are progressive neurocognitive disorders that currently affect approximately 50 million people worldwide. Mobile phone apps have been well-integrated into daily lives and can be used to deliver and promote health care. There is an increase in the use of technology to provide care and support to AD/RD patients and their families. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to review apps designed for AD/RD patients and analyze the benefits of, and challenges to, such technological solutions. METHODS: A systematic approach was applied to review the availability, content, features, and quality of mobile phone apps to support self-care among AD/RD patients. RESULTS: The initial search for this review was conducted in January 2019, and the screening and analysis of the included apps were completed in May 2019. A total of 14 apps were included from an initial search of 245 apps. The top 3 features were alert (9/14, 64%), self-care tips (6/14, 42%), and social networking capacity (5/14, 35%). On average, the readability of the apps was a tenth-grade reading level (SD 3.06). The overall quality was 3.71 out of 5 (SD 1.37). CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that currently available apps for AD/RD patients may not meet complex needs and may be challenging to use, given the possible impaired communication ability associated with AD/RD. Therefore, high-quality apps need to be developed and rigorously evaluated for feasibility and efficacy. JMIR Publications 2020-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7007594/ /pubmed/32012045 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/15290 Text en ©Yuqi Guo, Fan Yang, Fei Hu, Wei Li, Nicole Ruggiano, Hee Yun Lee. Originally published in JMIR Aging (http://aging.jmir.org), 24.01.2020. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Aging, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://aging.jmir.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Guo, Yuqi Yang, Fan Hu, Fei Li, Wei Ruggiano, Nicole Lee, Hee Yun Existing Mobile Phone Apps for Self-Care Management of People With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias: Systematic Analysis |
title | Existing Mobile Phone Apps for Self-Care Management of People With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias: Systematic Analysis |
title_full | Existing Mobile Phone Apps for Self-Care Management of People With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias: Systematic Analysis |
title_fullStr | Existing Mobile Phone Apps for Self-Care Management of People With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias: Systematic Analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Existing Mobile Phone Apps for Self-Care Management of People With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias: Systematic Analysis |
title_short | Existing Mobile Phone Apps for Self-Care Management of People With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias: Systematic Analysis |
title_sort | existing mobile phone apps for self-care management of people with alzheimer disease and related dementias: systematic analysis |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7007594/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32012045 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/15290 |
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