Developing an mHealth app for post-stroke upper limb rehabilitation: Feedback from US and Ethiopian rehabilitation clinicians
| Autor: | Tony Peng, Aaron Encarcion, Zeus A Cruz, Charmayne Hughes, Moges Baye, Michael Sera, Kedir Sany, Jonathan Ontiveros, Tatiana Mariscal Raymundo, Amy Hintze, Sam Warner, Sven Weidner, Alejandra Padilla |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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medicine.medical_specialty 020205 medical informatics medicine.medical_treatment Health Informatics 02 engineering and technology Feedback Upper Extremity 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Physical medicine and rehabilitation 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering medicine Humans mHealth Stroke User-centered design Rehabilitation End user business.industry Stroke Rehabilitation medicine.disease Mobile Applications Telemedicine medicine.anatomical_structure Post stroke Upper limb Upper limb rehabilitation business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Popis: | Stroke is the leading cause of adult disability worldwide, with 70 percent of survivors exhibiting residual impairments of the upper limb that require frequent in-person visits to rehabilitation clinic over several months. This study explored rehabilitation clinician’s preferences for design features to be included in an mHealth-enabled app for post-stroke upper limb rehabilitation. Data were collected via online survey, sampling participants from Ethiopia ( n = 69) and the United States ( n = 75). Survey results indicated that Ethiopian and US rehabilitation clinicians have different opinions about the importance of design features that should be included in a stroke tele-rehabilitation system which are likely due to differences in culture, the availability of human and physical resources, and how the field of rehabilitation is organized and managed. Our results, thus, indicate that mHealth technologies must be tailored to the geographical and cultural context of the end users. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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