A randomized controlled trial of an mHealth application with nursing interaction to promote quality of life among community-dwelling older adults.

ABSTRACT:

Significance

Using mHealth apps alone at home without the support of healthcare experts could mean that older adults might not fully utilize the functions of the apps, recognize their benefits, and sustain their use. Incorporating an integrated health-social partnership model to support the app usage when further help is needed by the older adults might maximize the apps' benefits in the long term.

Objectives

This study aimed to examine the benefits of adding nursing interaction supported by a health-social partnership model in the use of mHealth, and the sustained beneficial effects on psychological outcomes, including quality of life, self-efficacy, and depression, among older adults after the completion of the program.

Methods

A three-arm, randomized controlled tri

SUBMITTER: Wong AKC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9623156 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature