Rationale and Methods of Evaluation for ACHO, A New Virtual Assistant to Improve Therapeutic Adherence in Rural Elderly Populations: A User-Driven Living Lab

Low therapeutic adherence is a concern for health professionals as it decreases therapeutic efficiency while increasing costs, especially in elderly populations. To increase therapeutic adherence in elderly populations, the technology applied in the medical devices that are used must be adapted to i...

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Published in:International journal of environmental research and public health 2021-07, Vol.18 (15), p.7904
Main Authors: Luengo-Polo, Jeronimo, Conde-Caballero, David, Rivero-Jiménez, Borja, Ballesteros-Yáñez, Inmaculada, Castillo-Sarmiento, Carlos A., Mariano-Juárez, Lorenzo
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Language:English
Subjects:
End users
Health services
Innovations
Medical appointments
Medical equipment
Older people
Optimization
Patients
Populations
Product development
Professionals
Qualitative research
Rural areas
Rural populations
Smartphones
Study Protocol
Usability
User experience
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Summary:Low therapeutic adherence is a concern for health professionals as it decreases therapeutic efficiency while increasing costs, especially in elderly populations. To increase therapeutic adherence in elderly populations, the technology applied in the medical devices that are used must be adapted to improve usability. This paper outlines the rationale behind, and methods applied to assess the usability of, ACHO (Assistant on Care and Health Offline), a voice assistant that provides elderly patients with reminders of medical appointments to attend and when they need to take their medication. This work is a descriptive, cross-sectional, observational study, and will include a three-phase (analysis, testing and refinement) multidimensional usability analysis of an initial prototype, in the setting of a user-driven Living Lab, which enables the needs and characteristics of the end users to be identified and incorporated into the prototype with each iteration, in which a multidisciplinary team of researchers and users will participate as co-creators. This methodology will allow us to develop a better prototype, increasing usability and, thus, increasing therapeutic adherence.
ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph18157904