scholarly journals Tele-Treatment Application Design for Disable Patients with Wireless Sensors

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1142
Author(s):  
Alberto Arteta Albert ◽  
Luis Fernando de Mingo López ◽  
Nuria Gómez Blas
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Wireless Sensors ◽  
Modular System ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
Educational Training ◽  
Intelligent Monitoring ◽  
Single Solution ◽  
Virtual Interaction ◽  
Treatment Application

This paper consists of the development of a system to help patients with different disabilities, affected by rare or chronic diseases or any kind of dependence through tele assistance, virtual interaction and intelligent monitoring. The main goal is to increase the quality of life of the minorities who cannot take full advantage of the healthcare system by providing an alternative way of monitoring them with the technology embedded in this paper. The result of the paper is not intended to be a single solution, but a modular system that allows the construction of an application that is able to measure the needs of a health administration and the patients. The paper also pursues an educational training to the facultative trainees in a new way to approach patient treatments. It can improve the quality of life of the patients by saving them time and other resources in moving to the Health center and the professionals can also save time as they can take advantage of the online treatments by using the proposed system.

scholarly journals The Attention of Caregiver. An Intersdisciplinary Vision

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 105-118
Author(s):  
Esther Secanilla ◽  
María Bonjoch ◽  
Margarida Galindo ◽  
Laura Gros
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Emotional Wellbeing ◽  
Educational Training ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Validated Questionnaire ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Active Observation ◽  
Admission Interviews ◽  
Social And Emotional Wellbeing

In a global approach to the attention of carers of older people with dementia living at the elder’s home, it is essential to promote their personal, social and emotional wellbeing as well as provide them with tools that improve their quality of life. With this goal we present the experience of CDD and Residencia de Horta, Barcelona. A documentary review of the file was made, covering the period between 2004 and 2010 to define the sample. For the analysis of the semistructured admission interviews, monitoring and mentoring, a research was made through the daily records. Other strategies used were fulfilment questionnaires as well as the validated questionnaire of caregiver’s burden (Zarit and Zarit, 1982). Likewise, there was a systematic active observation of the GAM group. The interviews were made to the caregivers who attended the GAM. It is proven that actions of prevention and monitoring as well as psycho-educational training designed for carers promotes the user’s staying at their home, improves their quality of life and their caregiver’s.

scholarly journals Real-Time Primitives for CoAP: Extending the Use of IoT for Time Constraint Applications for Social Good

Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (19) ◽  
pp. 1257
Author(s):  
Gabriel Eggly ◽  
Mariano Finochietto ◽  
Emmanouil Dimogerontakis ◽  
Rodrigo Santos ◽  
Javier Orozco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Processing Speed ◽  
Wireless Sensors ◽  
Communication Protocols ◽  
Social Good ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
The Social

Internet of Things (IoT) have become a hot topic since the official introduction of IPv6. Research on Wireless Sensors Networks (WSN) move towards IoT as the communication platform and support provided by the TCP/UDP/IP stack provides a wide variety of services. The communication protocols need to be designed in such a way that even simple microcontrollers with small amount of memory and processing speed can be interconnected in a network. For this different protocols have been proposed. The most extended ones, MQTT and CoAP, represent two different paradigms. In this paper, we present a CoAP extension to support soft real-time communications among sensors, actuators and users. The extension facilitates the instrumentation of applications oriented to improve the quality of life of vulnerable communities contributing to the social good.

scholarly journals The SOFIA pilot trial: a cluster-randomized trial of coordinated, co-produced care to reduce mortality and improve quality of life in people with severe mental illness in the general practice setting

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. P. Rozing ◽  
A. Jønsson ◽  
R. Køster-Rasmussen ◽  
T. D. Due ◽  
J. Brodersen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
General Practice ◽  
Severe Mental Illness ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Pilot Trial ◽  
Care Program ◽  
Coordinated Care ◽  
Educational Training

Abstract Background People with severe mental illness (SMI) have an increased risk of premature mortality, predominantly due to somatic health conditions. Evidence indicates that primary and tertiary prevention and improved treatment of somatic conditions in patients with SMI could reduce this excess mortality. This paper reports a protocol designed to evaluate the feasibility of a coordinated co-produced care program (SOFIA model, a Danish acronym for Severe Mental Illness and Physical Health in General Practice) in the general practice setting to reduce mortality and improve quality of life in patients with severe mental illness. Methods The SOFIA pilot trial is designed as a cluster randomized controlled trial targeting general practices in two regions in Denmark. We aim to include 12 practices, each of which is instructed to recruit up to 15 community-dwelling patients aged 18 and older with SMI. Practices will be randomized by a computer in a ratio of 2:1 to deliver a coordinated care program or usual care during a 6-month study period. A randomized algorithm is used to perform randomization. The coordinated care program includes educational training of general practitioners and their clinical staff educational training of general practitioners and their clinical staff, which covers clinical and diagnostic management and focus on patient-centered care of this patient group, after which general practitioners will provide a prolonged consultation focusing on individual needs and preferences of the patient with SMI and a follow-up plan if indicated. The outcomes will be parameters of the feasibility of the intervention and trial methods and will be assessed quantitatively and qualitatively. Assessments of the outcome parameters will be administered at baseline, throughout, and at end of the study period. Discussion If necessary the intervention will be revised based on results from this study. If delivery of the intervention, either in its current form or after revision, is considered feasible, a future, definitive trial to determine the effectiveness of the intervention in reducing mortality and improving quality of life in patients with SMI can take place. Successful implementation of the intervention would imply preliminary promise for addressing health inequities in patients with SMI. Trial registration The trial was registered in Clinical Trials as of November 5, 2020, with registration number NCT04618250. Protocol version: January 22, 2021; original version

Implementation of the VA Symptom Assessment Scale (VSAS): Five-year experience.

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e23120-e23120
Author(s):  
Daphne Ruth Friedman ◽  
Vikas Patil ◽  
Kelli Marie Rasmussen ◽  
Brian C Sauer ◽  
Michael J. Kelley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Symptom Assessment ◽  
Assessment Scale ◽  
Veterans Health ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
Clinical Tool ◽  
Patient Reported ◽  
Symptom Assessment Scale

e23120 Background: Cancer patients experience symptoms which may precede diagnosis, occur during therapy, and persist into survivorship. Symptom assessments and patient reported outcomes have been shown to improve quality of life and extend survival in cancer patients. The Veterans Administration Symptom Assessment Scale (VSAS) is a clinical tool to document cancer-related symptoms. Here, we report VSAS adoption in five Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hematology-oncology sites during a five-year period. Methods: Data was collected from the Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW): VSAS data, date of birth, gender, race, ethnicity, vital status, year of cancer diagnosis, ICD-O-3, VHA facility, and clinic stop codes. Descriptive analyses of patient demographics, disease characteristics, and VSAS utilization was performed. VSAS is comprised of 13 symptoms, rated on a 0 to 10 scale. A VSAS visit was defined as the date the VSAS was administered to a patient. Results: From January 2013 through June 2018, there were 41,917 instances of VSAS administered to 9,409 unique patients at five VHA facilities: 8,512 (90.5%) were male; 5,241 (56%) were non-Hispanic White, 3,743 (40%) were Black, and 297 (3%) were other racial categories or not available. The median age at the first VSAS visit was 67 years. In patients whose oncologic diagnosis was recorded by a cancer registrar (4,536), the most common diagnoses were prostate cancer, lung cancer (all histologies), colon cancer, and multiple myeloma. The number of VSAS administrations increased annually, from 866 in 2013 to 12,775 in 2017, which may be attributed to increased adoption of VSAS across and within VHA facilities. Individual patients completed the VSAS 1-57 times (median 2). At the five VHA facilities utilizing VSAS in 2017, VSAS was administered at 56% of hematology-oncology clinic visits. Conclusions: VSAS is a tool to measure and document patient symptom burden, and has been successfully adopted in the last five years at select VHA facilities. Expanded use of VSAS throughout the VHA is an important step in improving the quality of life and extending survival of veterans with cancer and blood disorders.

scholarly journals PIH56 Measuring Quality of Life in Facial Aesthetic Patients: Field-Testing of a New Modular System (the FACE-Q)

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. A202
Author(s):  
A. Pusic ◽  
A. Klassen ◽  
A. Scott ◽  
A. Price ◽  
S. Cano
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Field Testing ◽  
Modular System ◽  
The Face

Reliability and validity of Quality of Life assessed by the Short-Form 36 and the Modular System for Quality of Life in patients with schizophrenia and patients with depression

2003 ◽  
Vol 119 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 63-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralf Pukrop ◽  
Volker Schlaak ◽  
Anne Maria Möller-Leimkühler ◽  
Margot Albus ◽  
Adelheid Czernik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Modular System ◽  
Short Form 36

scholarly journals Effects of “the Selected Smartphone Social-Messaging Applications” Training on Iranian Elderly’s Quality of Life: Results of a Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (07) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
Seyed Ebrahim Hosseini ◽  
Stuart Charters ◽  
Patricia Anthony ◽  
Abdulsalam Alhazmi
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Health Centers ◽  
Educational Training ◽  
Local Public Health ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Open Coding ◽  
And Control ◽  
Social Messaging

This qualitative study aimed to investigate the effects of using smartphone’s communication apps on Quality of Life (QoL) of elderly people living in Shiraz-Iran. The population of the study was all the senior residents registered with local public health centers located in Shiraz, Fars, Iran in 2018-2019. Overall, 20 participants volunteered to join the study, from the intervention and control groups (10 in each). Data were collected via semi-structured face to face interviews and analyzed using open-coding. The findings of this study and the educational training are intended to help families, practitioners in the aging field to pay more attention to teaching modern communication technology in order to promote healthier elderly and community.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Pandemic’s precautionary measures had hit the reset button of the quality of life at different aspects

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (08) ◽  
pp. 812-816
Author(s):  
Huda H Alsayedahmed
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
Precautionary Measures ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Impact

COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus that emerged in Wuhan-China during the last quarter in 2019 and caused an infectious respiratory disease pandemic. The strategy of “Attack and Defend” was attempted to mitigate COVID-19 crisis worldwide. A list of precautionary measures were set by healthcare professional experts to protect public from infection, social physical distancing measures being the most efficient. On the other hand, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has established protective guidelines for healthcare workers to guarantee a healthy workplace and safe environment. The physical distancing measures have obviously reshaped the relationship between family members leading to better quality of family life. Meanwhile, travel suspension also led to slightly higher health standards with less air pollution, lower traffic induced stress levels and subsequently a greener footprint. Herein, we intend to highlight the impact of COVID-19 pandemic protective measures on family connections, as well as on environmental health. Moreover, we aimed at pointing out the effect on Saudi Arabian cultural and humanitarian behavior in dealing with the pandemic under the governance care of the custodian of the two holy mosques; King Salman Al-Saud. In fact, a combination of restrictive and protective measures is the most efficient to curb COVID-19 spread. In addition to improving the quality of social life, this pandemic revealed a healthier climate, which will certainly be visible on a large scale. Certainly, all together with solidarity we will be able to restrain COVID-19 pandemic and have a better quality of life.

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