Online Psychosocial Assessment Instruments Technology Transfer

在线心理社会评估工具技术转让

• 批准号: 7911550
• 负责人: Edwin Joseph Selker
• 金额: $ 11.18万
• 依托单位: KINNEXXUS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-15 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7911550
• 关键词: Adoption; Affect; Age; Aging; Brief Pain Inventory; Caregivers; Caring; Chronic; Cognitive; Collection; Communication; Complex; Computers; Data; Deterioration; Early Diagnosis; Ecosystem; Effectiveness; Elderly; Electronic Mail; Expenditure; Family Caregiver; Family member; Feasibility Studies; Future; Generations; Health; Health Personnel; Home environment; Internet; Life; Link; Manuals; Marketing; Measurement; Measures; Medical; Monitor; Moods; Outcome; Pain; Pain Assessment Tool; Pain Attribute; Pain Measurement; Pain management; Paper; Patient Self-Report; Patients; Personal Satisfaction; Phase; Play; Principal Investigator; Process; Provider; Psychosocial Assessment and Care; Psychosocial Influences; Public Health; Quality of life; Reporting; Retirement; Role; Self Assessment; Services; Silicon; Small Business Technology Transfer Research; Social Network; Social support; Staging; Support System; System; Techniques; Technology; Technology Assessment; Technology Transfer; Testing; Time; Validation; Variant; base; cognitive function; commercialization; compliance behavior; cost; flexibility; improved; instrument; instrumentation; member; new technology; novel; patient home care; programs; psychosocial; public health relevance; residence; sensor; social; technological innovation; usability

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As elders age, they need increasing amounts of adaptive assistance and care from their caregivers- people who are often busy or remote. With the baby boomer generation preparing to retire, the sheer number of people who will need support will far outstrip the nation's ability to provide professional caregivers. Furthermore, the nation will not be able to afford residential care costs for those elders who could live independently with appropriate gerontechnological support. This project will explore the feasibility of utilizing integrated information and measurement technology to help extend the period of an elder's independence in their residential setting, with improved quality of life and reduced total cost of care. In particular, the project will examine how the (semi-)automated in-home collection, analysis, and appropriate distribution of psychosocial data might enable elders to maintain this independence, with support from members of their social support network. Manual collection of patient psychosocial data (e.g., paper versions of the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) [Cleeland, 1991]) is error-prone and often incomplete due to poor patient compliance. By augmenting the Kinnexxus system with a selection of the everyday sensors (e.g., cameras and microphones) and online assessment instruments, one might be able to automate much of the information acquisition. This phase of the technology transfer focuses on the feasibility of measuring pain attributes with a combination of sensors and online assessment instruments. The study's specific objectives are to evaluate novel pain assessment technology, compared with conventional use of the paper-based BPI, to demonstrate the feasibility of a flexible and robust extension to the Kinnexxus platform, supporting elders' everyday monitoring of pain. The project will examine issues regarding effectiveness and usability of the novel technology. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Aging-in-place can be enhanced, quality of life extended, and costs reduced by providing an adaptable elder kiosk with attached psychosocial sensors and assessment instruments for an elder to use in his/her residence, connecting by Internet to a customizable social network that links the elder with family members, clinicians and other caregivers, wherever they are located. An important role played by this kiosk is to provide useful reminders to the elder at the appropriate time and place in order to collect psychosocial assessment information (e.g. pain assessment), and to distribute and analyze such information in a way that is appropriate to the roles played by the various members of the elder's support network. Aging-in-place has become an extremely important consideration for public health, due especially to the pending retirement and aging of the baby boomer generation, who will need appropriate gerontechnology to support their independence as they age, while reducing public expenditures for elder care.

描述（由申请人提供）：随着长者的年龄，他们需要越来越多的自适应援助和照顾者，他们的照顾者通常忙或偏远。随着婴儿潮一代准备退休，需要支持的人数远远超出了国家提供专业护理人员的能力。此外，国家将无法为那些可以在适当的老年技术支持下独立生活的长辈负担住宿护理费用。该项目将探讨利用综合信息和测量技术的可行性，以帮助在住宅环境中扩大长老独立时期，并改善生活质量和降低总护理成本。特别是，该项目将研究（半）自动化的内部收集，分析以及对社会社会支持网络成员的支持，可以使长者能够保持这种独立性。手动收集患者的心理社会数据（例如，简短疼痛清单的纸张版本（BPI）[Cleeland，1991]）是错误的，由于患者的依从性差而经常不完整。通过通过选择日常传感器（例如，相机和麦克风）和在线评估工具来增强Kinnexxus系统，人们可能能够自动化大量信息获取。技术转移的这一阶段着重于通过传感器和在线评估工具组合来测量疼痛属性的可行性。该研究的具体目标是与常规使用基于纸质的BPI相比，评估新颖的疼痛评估技术，以证明对Kinnexxus平台的灵活且稳健的扩展的可行性，从而支持长者的日常疼痛监测。该项目将研究有关新技术的有效性和可用性的问题。 公共卫生相关性：实地老化可以提高，生活质量延长，并通过提供适应性的长老亭（Elder Kiosk可定制的社交网络将老年人与家庭成员，临床医生和其他护理人员联系起来，无论他们身在何处。该售货亭起着的重要作用是在适当的时间和地点向长者提供有用的提醒，以收集社会心理评估信息（例如疼痛评估），并以适合角色的方式分发和分析和分析此类信息由老人支持网络的各个成员扮演。现场老化已成为公共卫生的极为重要的考虑因素，特别是由于婴儿潮一代的待预期和衰老，他们将需要适当的老年技术来支持其年龄的独立性，同时减少对老年人护理的公共支出。