A Survey of Mobile Apps for the Care Management of Patients with Dementia
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methods
2.1. Search Strategy and Inclusion Criteria
2.2. Eligibility Criteria
2.3. Data Extraction
2.4. Quality Assessment of Mobile Applications
2.5. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Characteristics of Included Studies
3.2. Mobile Application Rating Scale Analysis Results
4. Discussion
Limitations
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Mobile App Availability | n | % | |
---|---|---|---|
Google Play | 80 | 80.8% | |
Apple’s App Store | 79 | 79.8% | |
Both Google Play and Apple’s App Store | 72 | 72.7% | |
Language | |||
English | 80 | 80.8% | |
Chinese | 18 | 18.2% | |
Both | 1 | 1.0% | |
Mobile app characteristics, n (%) | |||
Country of origin | |||
America | 35 | 35.4% | |
Taiwan | 11 | 11.1% | |
U.K. | 10 | 10.1% | |
Hongkong | 6 | 6.0% | |
India | 6 | 6.0% | |
Other countries | 31 | 31.3% | |
Application development team | |||
medical professional | 26 | 30.2% | |
academic expert | 11 | 12.8% | |
academic institution | 16 | 18.6% | |
Information staff | 20 | 23.2% | |
long-term care staff | 3 | 3.5% | |
Professional Society | 1 | 1.2% | |
Civil Society and Government Organizations | 9 | 10.5% | |
ICON Graphical Feature Analysis | |||
1. Friendly | 72 | 83.7% | |
2. In line with the theme | 81 | 94.2% | |
3. Conspicuous | 82 | 95.3% | |
4. The layout is clear | 84 | 97.7% | |
5. Concise and powerful | 83 | 96.5% | |
6. Dementia keywords are clear | 59 | 68.6% | |
7. Guardian | 23 | 26.7% | |
8. Interact | 29 | 33.7% | |
9. Be careful | 9 | 10.5% | |
10. Warm | 33 | 38.4% | |
11. Inclusive | 10 | 11.6% | |
Total icon score | 6.57 ± 1.507 |
(a) | ||||
Subscale | All Apps Mean ± SD | English Apps Mean ± SD | Chinese Apps Mean ± SD | p Value |
Overall | 3.571 ± 0.608 | 3.576 ± 0.580 | 3.569 ± 0.746 | 0.962 |
Engagement | 2.689 ± 0.743 | 2.635 ± 0.710 | 2.956 ± 0.859 | 0.099 |
Functionality | 4.321 ± 0.655 | 4.303 ± 0.603 | 4.403 ± 0.879 | 0.564 |
Aesthetics | 3.909 ± 0.798 | 3.896 ± 0.755 | 4.000 ± 0.817 | 0.603 |
Information | 3.366 ± 1.334 | 3.472 ± 1.305 | 2.917 ± 1.419 | 0.112 |
Subjective quality | 2.644 ± 0.983 | 2.597 ± 0.955 | 2.903 ± 1.099 | 0.235 |
perceived impact | 2.534 ± 1.333 | 2.654 ± 1.372 | 2.000 ± 1.057 | 0.061 |
(b) | ||||
Subscale | All Apps Mean ± SD | Before the COVID-19 Pandemic Mean ± SD | During the COVID-19 Pandemic Mean ± SD | p Value |
Overall | 3.571± 0.608 | 3.699 ± 0.615 | 3.722 ± 0.416 | 0.299 |
Engagement | 2.689 ± 0.743 | 2.698 ± 0.716 | 3.117 ± 0.594 | 0.068 |
Functionality | 4.321 ± 0.655 | 4.378 ± 0.654 | 4.354 ± 0.482 | 0.908 |
Aesthetics | 3.909 ± 0.798 | 3.992 ± 0.815 | 4.083 ± 0.571 | 0.719 |
Information | 3.366 ± 1.334 | 3.728 ± 1.254 | 3.333 ± 1.293 | 0.340 |
Subjective quality | 2.644 ± 0.983 | 2.789 ± 0.929 | 3.083 ± 0.925 | 0.333 |
perceived impact | 2.534 ± 1.333 | 2.800 ± 1.241 | 2.444 ± 1.459 | 0.399 |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleKuo, Hsiao-Lun, Chun-Hung Chang, and Wei-Fen Ma. 2022. "A Survey of Mobile Apps for the Care Management of Patients with Dementia" Healthcare 10, no. 7: 1173. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10071173