FindMyApps eHealth intervention improves quality, not quantity, of home tablet use by people with dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

FindMyApps is a tablet-based eHealth intervention, designed to improve social health in people with mild dementia or mild cognitive impairment.

Methods

FindMyApps has been subject to a randomized controlled trial (RCT), Netherlands Trial Register NL8157. Following UK Medical Research Council guidance, a mixed methods process evaluation was conducted. The goal was to investigate the quantity and quality of tablet use during the RCT, and which context, implementation, and mechanisms of impact (usability, learnability and adoption) factors might have influenced this. For the RCT, 150 community dwelling people with dementia and their caregivers were recruited in the Netherlands. For the process evaluation, tablet-use data were collected by proxy-report instrument fr

SUBMITTER: Neal DP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10262310 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature