The psychosocial impact of interactive computer use within a vulnerable elderly population: a report on a randomized prospective trial in a home health care setting.
Quality of care for vulnerable elderly clients makes it important to consider the psychosocial effects of interactive computer use as a means to communicate for social, functional, and/or health care purposes in a home health care setting. In a 3-month randomized prospective trial, telecommunication...
| Publicado en: | Public Health Nursing Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 138 - 146 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar/Apr2001
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