探索社会经济差异和发展者与痴呆相关的医学参与 英语版 移动健康应用程序
Tzu Han Chen1, Wei-Fen Ma2,3
1PhD Program for Health Science and Industry, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
International journal of geriatric psychiatry
|March 21, 2025
概括
移动健康应用程序在痴呆症护理方面表现有前途,但质量在全球范围内有所不同. 有较高参与度和医疗专家投入的应用程序显示出更大的感知影响,特别是在低收入国家.
科学领域:
- 老年学和数字健康
- 痴呆症护理技术 痴呆症护理技术
- 移动健康 (mHealth) 干预措施
背景情况:
- 移动健康 (mHealth) 干预措施为改善全球老龄化人口的福祉提供了重大潜力,特别是那些患痴呆症风险增加的人群.
- 在不同的人口和社会经济环境中评估移动健康应用对于最大限度地发挥其益处至关重要.
- 专注于痴呆症的mHealth应用程序的质量和影响可能会受到国家发展状况和开发人员专业知识的影响.
研究的目的:
- 研究一个国家的发展状况与专注于痴呆症的移动健康应用程序的质量之间的关系.
- 评估开发人员的医疗专业知识对这些应用程序的质量和感知影响的影响.
- 确定关键因素与更高的应用程序质量和用户对痴呆症mHealth的感知影响相关.
主要方法:
- 采用了横截面的观察性研究设计,利用移动应用程序的可用性为医疗保健研究和科学 (uMARS) 工具.
- 对17个选择的与痴呆相关的mHealth应用程序进行了客观质量 (参与,功能,美学,信息) 和主观质量 (用户建议,预期使用,感知影响) 的评估.
- 数据分析包括描述性统计数据,独立的样本t测试和Pearson的相关系数来确定变量之间的关系.
主要成果:
- 在分析的51个与痴呆症相关的移动健康应用中,只有一个是在低收入国家开发的,这突显了显著的地理差异.
- 发现痴呆症mHealth应用程序的感知影响与开发团队的医疗背景之间存在线性相关性 (t=3.708,p<0.001).
- 在应用程序参与度和主观质量 (r=0.955,p<0.001) 之间以及在提供的信息和感知影响 (r=0.884,p<0.001) 之间观察到高相关性.
结论:
- 优先采用移动健康应用程序对于支持痴呆症患者及其照顾者至关重要,特别是在低收入国家.
- 未来对痴呆症的mHealth应用程序开发应该专注于增强用户参与度和整合医疗专业知识,以提高可信度和利用率.
- 提高应用程序质量和开发人员专业知识可以提高数字健康解决方案的有效性和可访问性,跨越不同的社会经济层面和医疗保健系统.
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