Perceptions of seniors with heart failure regarding autonomous zero-effort monitoring of physiological parameters in the smart-home environment

Autor: Caroline Chessex, Susanna Mak, Isaac S. Chang, Jennifer Boger, Sherry L. Grace, Alex Mihailidis, Golnoush Taherzadeh, Amaya Arcelus
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Male
Safety Management
Technology Assessment
Biomedical
020205 medical informatics
media_common.quotation_subject
Credence
Health Status
Applied psychology
02 engineering and technology
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
03 medical and health sciences
User-Computer Interface
0302 clinical medicine
Home automation
Perception
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
medicine
Humans
Qualitative Research
media_common
Aged
Monitoring
Physiologic
Heart Failure
Self-management
Modalities
business.industry
medicine.disease
Patient perceptions
Chronic disease
Quality of Life
Female
Medical emergency
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Attitude to Health
Qualitative research
Zdroj: Heartlung : the journal of critical care. 46(4)
ISSN: 1527-3288
Popis: Background Technological advances are leading to the ability to autonomously monitor patient's health status in their own homes, to enable aging-in-place. Objectives To understand the perceptions of seniors with heart failure (HF) regarding smart-home systems to monitor their physiological parameters. Methods In this qualitative study, HF outpatients were invited to a smart-home lab, where they completed a sequence of activities, during which the capacity of 5 autonomous sensing modalities was compared to gold standard measures. Afterwards, a semi-structured interview was undertaken. These were transcribed and analyzed using an interpretive-descriptive approach. Results Five themes emerged from the 26 interviews: (1) perceptions of technology, (2) perceived benefits of autonomous health monitoring, (3) disadvantages of autonomous monitoring, (4) lack of perceived need for continuous health monitoring, and (5) preferences for autonomous monitoring. Conclusions Patient perception towards autonomous monitoring devices was positive, lending credence to zero-effort technology as a viable and promising approach.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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