Usability evaluation for the Amulet Wearable Device in rural older adults with obesity.

Mobile health (mHealth) interventions hold the promise of augmenting existing health promotion interventions. Older adults present unique challenges in advancing new models of health promotion using technology including sensory limitations and less experience with mHealth, underscoring the need for...

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Publicado en:Gerontechnology Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 151 - 160
Autores principales: Batsis, John A., Zagaria, Alexandra, Kotz, David F., Bartels, Stephen J., Boateng, George G., Proctor, Patrick O., Halter, Ryan J., Carpenter-Song, Elizabeth A.
Formato: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: International Society for Gerontechnology 2018
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          Batsis, John A.
          Zagaria, Alexandra
          Kotz, David F.
          Bartels, Stephen J.
          Boateng, George G.
          Proctor, Patrick O.
          Halter, Ryan J.
          Carpenter-Song, Elizabeth A.
        affil: Department of Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Ceisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
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          Wearable Sensors Utilization
          Telehealth
          Health Behavior
          Product Evaluation
          Obesity Therapy
          Rural Health
          Health Care Delivery, Integrated
          Human
          Semi-Structured Interview
          Focus Groups
          Questionnaires
          Purposive Sample
          Leaders
          Physician Attitudes
          Thematic Analysis
          Quantitative Studies
          Descriptive Statistics
          Validity
          Privacy and Confidentiality
          Aged
          Stakeholder Participation
          Aesthetics
          Psychological Tests Methods
          Activities of Daily Living
          Aged: 65+ years
      ab: Mobile health (mHealth) interventions hold the promise of augmenting existing health promotion interventions. Older adults present unique challenges in advancing new models of health promotion using technology including sensory limitations and less experience with mHealth, underscoring the need for specialized usability testing. We use an open-source mHealth device as a case example for its integration in a newly designed health services intervention. We performed a convergent, parallel mixed-methods study including semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and questionnaires, using purposive sampling of 29 older adults, 4 community leaders, and 7 clinicians in a rural setting. We transcribed the data, developed codes informed by thematic analysis using inductive and deductive methods, and assessed the quantitative data using descriptive statistics. Our results suggest the importance of end-users in user-centered design of mHealth devices and that aesthetics are critically important. The prototype could potentially be feasibly integrated within health behavior interventions. Centralized dashboards were desired by all participants and ecological momentary assessment could be an important part of monitoring. Concerns of mHealth, including the prototype device, include the device's accuracy, its intrusiveness in daily life and privacy. Formative evaluations are critically important prior to deploying large-scale interventions.
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