A Socially Assistive Robot for Long-Term Cardiac Rehabilitation in the Real World

? To answer this question we designed and conducted a real-world long-term study, in collaboration with medical specialists, at the Fundación Cardioinfantil-Instituto de Cardiología clinic (Bogotá, Colombia) lasting 2.5 years. The study took place within the context of the outpatient phase of patien...

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Published in:Frontiers in neurorobotics 2021-03, Vol.15, p.633248
Main Authors: Céspedes, Nathalia, Irfan, Bahar, Senft, Emmanuel, Cifuentes, Carlos A, Gutierrez, Luisa F, Rincon-Roncancio, Mónica, Belpaeme, Tony, Múnera, Marcela
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Language:English
Subjects:
Blood pressure
cardiac rehabilitation
Cardiology
Exercise
Feedback
Fitness equipment
Heart rate
human-robot interaction
human-robot interface
Laboratories
long-term interaction
Motivation
Neuroscience
Patients
Perceptions
Physiology
Rehabilitation
Robotics
Robots
social assistive robotics
social robot
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Summary:? To answer this question we designed and conducted a real-world long-term study, in collaboration with medical specialists, at the Fundación Cardioinfantil-Instituto de Cardiología clinic (Bogotá, Colombia) lasting 2.5 years. The study took place within the context of the outpatient phase of patients' cardiac rehabilitation programme and aimed to compare the patients' progress and adherence in the conventional cardiac rehabilitation programme ( ) against rehabilitation supported by a fully autonomous socially assistive robot which continuously monitored the patients during exercise to provide immediate feedback and motivation based on sensory measures ( ). The explicit aim of the social robot is to improve patient motivation and increase adherence to the programme to ensure a complete recovery. We recruited 15 patients per condition. The cardiac rehabilitation programme was designed to last 36 sessions (18 weeks) per patient. The findings suggest that robot increases adherence (by 13.3%) and leads to faster completion of the programme. In addition, the patients assisted by the robot had more rapid improvement in their recovery heart rate, better physical activity performance and a higher improvement in cardiovascular functioning, which indicate a successful cardiac rehabilitation programme performance. Moreover, the medical staff and the patients acknowledged that the robot improved the patient motivation and adherence to the programme, supporting its potential in addressing the major challenges in rehabilitation programmes.
ISSN:1662-5218
1662-5218
DOI:10.3389/fnbot.2021.633248