Abstract
Today, there is a smartphone app for almost everything. Even though “apps” for mobile health (mHealth) seem to be a promising approach to address individual needs of patients and caregivers that are affected by a chronic medical condition, they are still scarce and their benefits have not been studied. Since stroke is the archetype of a chronic disease, this paper proposes an mHealth concept for stroke patients and their caregivers that combines individual information with mobile IT and serious games to support the rehabilitation, therapy adherence, and secondary stroke prevention. Based on literature and initial expert interviews, current shortcomings of German outpatient settings have been identified. They are addressed through the mHealth-based Stroke Manager App (SMA). Its concept has been evaluated by an online survey and the prototype will be evaluated in a field study. In this paper the SMA, survey results and the field study’s evaluation framework is presented.
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This work was partially funded by the Federal German Ministry for Education and Research. Furthermore, Robert Hagedorn provided significant contributions in gathering and analyzing the data.
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Görlitz, R.A. (2015). The Stroke Manager App—Individual and Mobile Support for Stroke Patients and Their Caregivers. In: Xu, J., Nickel, S., Machado, V., Hajiyev, A. (eds) Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 362. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47241-5_35
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