جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « برنامه های تلفن همراه » در نشریات گروه « پزشکی »

The numerous problems of children with congenital heart disease (CHD) and their care burden can reduce the quality of life of parents, especially mothers. Compliance with treatment after discharge from the hospital is crucial. It is necessary to provide home care educational programs for them. Given the advance of technology and the popularity of mobile phone use, this study aims to design an educational mobile application for home care after surgery to improve the quality of life and adherence to treatment in mothers of children with CHD in Iran.

This is a study protocol on 72 mothers of children with CHD referred to the Children’s Medical Center of a hospital (affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences) for surgery. The data collection tools will be a demographic form, the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36), and Fatemi et al.’s Adherence to Treatment Questionnaire. Data collection will be done before and one month after the intervention. The collected data will be analyzed using mean and standard deviation, independent t-test, paired t-test, chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test, and Mann-Whitney U test.
Results The results will be analyzed to assess the effectiveness of the mobile-based educational intervention in improving the quality of life and adherence to treatment of mothers of children with CHD.

This is the protocol of a study that examines the effect of a mobile-based post-surgery home care training application on the quality of life and adherence to treatment of mothers. The results of such studies can help identify the faster, easier and more effective methods of patient education.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of mobile applications increased among people coping with mental health problems. This study aimed to review mobile applications developed or used during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In order to retrieve related articles, the keywords "COVID-19", "Mental health", and "Mobile application" were searched in Web of Science, PubMed, and Scopus databases without a time limit until April 12, 2022. After selecting the articles according to the entry criteria, the features of the introduced applications were checked.

Finally, 25 articles were included in the study, of which 20 applications were developed during the pandemic and five practical programs were already designed. Four applications were designed for medical staff, and 16 were designed for the general public, for each of students, children aged 3-9, COVID-19 patients, cancer patients, and both medical staff and patients with stress disorders one app was designed. The reviewed applications presented educational tips for overcoming negative and destructive thoughts, and getting information about a healthy lifestyle. Also, eight applications provided contractions between users and psychologists. 

The results of this study can be used as a comprehensive source to examine the features and capabilities of mental health applications during the Coronavirus pandemic. It is suggested that by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of such applications, measures should be taken to develop more comprehensive applications that meet users' needs.

Many risk factors can cause biliary system diseases. Hence, this category of diseases is amongst the most common ones. Active patient cooperation is very important in disease management, self-care, and clinical outcomes improvement. A mobile phone application has a high potential in supporting the patients’ self-management. Therefore, this study was conducted to recognize and define data elements to develop a self-care application for biliary patients.

The current descriptive study was conducted in 2 stages, resource investigation, and data elements’ need assessment. In the first stage, scientific articles available in databases were used for defining required data elements to develop the application for biliary patients, and a checklist of data elements was prepared. In the second stage, a questionnaire was made based on the checklist. Content and face validity were accepted by the research team and the reliability was calculated 87.2%, using the Cronbach’s alpha test. The mentioned questionnaire was given to Gastroenterologists at Imam Khomeini Hospital complex, and the elected data elements were recognized.

In this application, data elements were categorized into seven sections, including demographic and clinical information, data related to the biliary system diseases, postoperative lifestyle information of the biliary patients, reminders, disease management, and informing. Sixty point five percent of the responders gave the highest importance to data elements in the demographic and clinical data section. Data elements related to patients’ education were considered highly important by 54.2% of the responders. Forty three point eight percent gave the highest importance to data elements in interventional applications’ sections, and only 4.2% gave the least importance to this section.

Based on the identified data elements, a self-care application was designed and developed and can be used as a supplement to specialized care for biliary patients.

Pre-hospital care report is a valid medical document containing demographic information, vital signs, times related to ambulance location, evaluations, and performed medical procedures. With the advancement of technology and communication, Asayar smart program has replaced the paper registration method. Therefore, the current study aimed to compare the time indicators and outcome of pre-hospital emergency operations in two methods of electronic registration with the Asayar program and paper registration.

This descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study was conducted in Isfahan in 2019. A number of 700 missions registered by paper in 2017 and 230 missions recorded by Asayar program methods in 2018 were reviewed. Samples were selected by a stratified method with a proportional allocation approach. In order to collect data, researcher-made tools were designed, and content validity was examined. Data analysis was performed by propensity score matching, descriptive statistics, as well as Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon tests.

The results demonstrated that incomplete data were obtained at 2.68% and 7.19%  in the Asayar method and the paper method, respectively. The rates of hospital admission in the Asayar and paper methods were reported as 0.9% and  4.9%, respectively. Ambulance arrival time at the patientchr('39')s bedside, in the Asayar and paper methods were calculated at 8 min and 43 sec and 11 min and 30 sec, respectively. Moreover, the time of ambulance discharge from the hospital in the Asayar and paper methods were reported as 9 min and 20 sec and 12 min and 37 sec.

As evidenced by the obtained results, documentation by the Asayar method reduced the lost data and increased patient admission in hospitals. Furthermore, it reduced the time of ambulance arrival at the patientchr('39')s bedside and the time of ambulance release.

Due to the increasing trend of heart diseases and their complications, programs such as cardiac rehabilitation can reduce the complications and faster recovery of patients. Therefore, the aim of this study was to design and evaluate the usability of smartphone-based application for training outpatient cardiac rehabilitation.

This applied-developmental study was conducted at Kashan University of Medical Sciences in 2019. In order to specify the app information content and feature, a checklist was designed based on the relevant literature and opinions cardiologists (10 peoples) and nurses (10 peoples). The application was designed and developed in JAVA environment and on the Android operating system. The usability evaluation was performed using the think aloud method and the System Usability Scale questionnaire by cardiac patients (10 peoples), nurses (10 peoples) and cardiologists (10 peoples).

The most important information contents were education, diet, physical activity and medications and the most important features were, pulse count, harmful cholesterol level record, Body mass Index calculation and triglyceride levels chart display. Usability evaluation showed that patients, nurses and cardiologists rated the application at a desirable level with mean score of 74.25, 74.5 and 75.36, respectively.

Based on the userschr('39') opinions in this study, smartphone_based applications had potential to transfer educational contents to heart patients to prevent acute cardiac events, lifestyle modification and rehabilitation education.

Computerized concept mapping is a useful tool for providing nursing care. Considering the availability of mobile for learners and the role of it in increasing the skills of nursing students, this paper aimed to investigate the effects of nursing process effectiveness with conceptual mapping via mobile phone on nursing students' self-efficacy in intensive care course. In this randomized clinical trial, 68 fourth grade nursing students from Lorestan University of Medical Sciences in second semester 2015-2016 were selected and by stratified block randomization classified into intervention and control groups. The intervention group received nursing process with concept map and software, and the control group received traditional teaching. The self-efficacy of learners was measured with clinical self-efficacy questionnaire consist of 4 dimensions. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Fisher's exact test, chi square test, and Mann–Whitney through SPSS. The total score of self-efficacy of the subjects before the study did not differ significantly between the two groups, but after the intervention, the relative increase percentage of total self-efficacy score (p<0.001) and its dimensions included an assessment (p=0.005), diagnosis (p=0.002), implementation, (p=0.002) and evaluation (p<0.001) in intervention group were more than control group. The implementation of nursing process with concept map leads to increasing the self-efficacy of learners in clinical practice. Considering easy access to mobile, it is recommended to be used this method with mobile-based application in teaching nursing students.