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Supporting Medical Staff from Psycho-Oncology with Smart Mobile Devices: Insights into the Development Process and First Results
Cancer is a very distressing disease, not only for the patients themselves, but also for their family members and relatives. Therefore, patients are regularly monitored to decide whether psychological treatment is necessary and applicable. However, such monitoring processes are costly in terms of re...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8150950/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34064987 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105092 |
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author | Schobel, Johannes Volz, Madeleine Hörner, Katharina Kuhn, Peter Jobst, Franz Schwab, Julian D. Ikonomi, Nensi Werle, Silke D. Fürstberger, Axel Hoenig, Klaus Kestler, Hans A. |
author_facet | Schobel, Johannes Volz, Madeleine Hörner, Katharina Kuhn, Peter Jobst, Franz Schwab, Julian D. Ikonomi, Nensi Werle, Silke D. Fürstberger, Axel Hoenig, Klaus Kestler, Hans A. |
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description | Cancer is a very distressing disease, not only for the patients themselves, but also for their family members and relatives. Therefore, patients are regularly monitored to decide whether psychological treatment is necessary and applicable. However, such monitoring processes are costly in terms of required staff and time. Mobile data collection is an emerging trend in various domains. The medical and psychological field benefits from such an approach, which enables experts to quickly collect a large amount of individual health data. Mobile data collection applications enable a more holistic view of patients and assist psychologists in taking proper actions. We developed a mobile application, FeelBack, which is designed to support data collection that is based on well-known and approved psychological instruments. A controlled pilot evaluation with 60 participants provides insights into the feasibility of the developed platform and it shows the initial results. 31 of these participants received paper-based questionnaire and 29 followed the digital approach. The results reveal an increase of the overall acceptance by 58.5% in the mean when using a digital screening as compared to the paper-based. We believe that such a platform may significantly improve cancer patients’ and relatives’ psychological treatment, as available data can be used to optimize treatment. |
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spelling | pubmed-81509502021-05-27 Supporting Medical Staff from Psycho-Oncology with Smart Mobile Devices: Insights into the Development Process and First Results Schobel, Johannes Volz, Madeleine Hörner, Katharina Kuhn, Peter Jobst, Franz Schwab, Julian D. Ikonomi, Nensi Werle, Silke D. Fürstberger, Axel Hoenig, Klaus Kestler, Hans A. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Cancer is a very distressing disease, not only for the patients themselves, but also for their family members and relatives. Therefore, patients are regularly monitored to decide whether psychological treatment is necessary and applicable. However, such monitoring processes are costly in terms of required staff and time. Mobile data collection is an emerging trend in various domains. The medical and psychological field benefits from such an approach, which enables experts to quickly collect a large amount of individual health data. Mobile data collection applications enable a more holistic view of patients and assist psychologists in taking proper actions. We developed a mobile application, FeelBack, which is designed to support data collection that is based on well-known and approved psychological instruments. A controlled pilot evaluation with 60 participants provides insights into the feasibility of the developed platform and it shows the initial results. 31 of these participants received paper-based questionnaire and 29 followed the digital approach. The results reveal an increase of the overall acceptance by 58.5% in the mean when using a digital screening as compared to the paper-based. We believe that such a platform may significantly improve cancer patients’ and relatives’ psychological treatment, as available data can be used to optimize treatment. MDPI 2021-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8150950/ /pubmed/34064987 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105092 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Schobel, Johannes Volz, Madeleine Hörner, Katharina Kuhn, Peter Jobst, Franz Schwab, Julian D. Ikonomi, Nensi Werle, Silke D. Fürstberger, Axel Hoenig, Klaus Kestler, Hans A. Supporting Medical Staff from Psycho-Oncology with Smart Mobile Devices: Insights into the Development Process and First Results |
title | Supporting Medical Staff from Psycho-Oncology with Smart Mobile Devices: Insights into the Development Process and First Results |
title_full | Supporting Medical Staff from Psycho-Oncology with Smart Mobile Devices: Insights into the Development Process and First Results |
title_fullStr | Supporting Medical Staff from Psycho-Oncology with Smart Mobile Devices: Insights into the Development Process and First Results |
title_full_unstemmed | Supporting Medical Staff from Psycho-Oncology with Smart Mobile Devices: Insights into the Development Process and First Results |
title_short | Supporting Medical Staff from Psycho-Oncology with Smart Mobile Devices: Insights into the Development Process and First Results |
title_sort | supporting medical staff from psycho-oncology with smart mobile devices: insights into the development process and first results |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8150950/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34064987 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105092 |
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