Google Calendar: A single case experimental design study of a man with severe memory problems

Baldwin, Victoria Nola; Powell, Theresa

doi:10.1080/09602011.2014.956764

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“…In their study, McDonald et al, (2011) found Google Calendar to be significantly more effective than a paperbased diary. Similar positive outcomes were reported with an individual with ABI, who had severe verbal and visual memory difficulties and no prior use of a memory aid (Baldwin and Powell 2015).…”

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MindMate: A single case experimental design study of a reminder system for people with dementia

McGoldrick

Crawford

Evans

2019

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

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Prospective memory difficulties are commonly reported in people with dementia. The evidence supporting the use of prospective memory devices among the dementia population remains limited. MindMate is a recently developed smart device application that aims to support individuals with a diagnosis of dementia, improving self-management skills and quality of life. This study investigated the effectiveness and usability of the reminder tool on the MindMate application as a memory aid. Three participants with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease were recruited to this multiple baseline single case experimental design study. Partners of the participants recorded their performance on everyday tasks on weekly monitoring forms during a baseline phase (between five and seven weeks) and during the intervention phase (five weeks) whilst using MindMate. Two participants successfully used the app throughout the intervention weeks and gave positive usability ratings. Tau-U analysis showed a significant increase in memory performance between baseline and intervention phase (Tau-U = 1, 0.94, p<0.01). A third participant withdrew from the intervention phase following difficulties turning off the reminders and frustrations with the reminder alert sound. For two of the three participants, use of MindMate was feasible and effective in supporting remembering of everyday tasks compared to practice as usual.

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Section: Smart Phones and Applicationssupporting

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MindMate: A single case experimental design study of a reminder system for people with dementia

McGoldrick

Crawford

Evans

2019

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

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“…usually have a calendar or reminder function. However, few apps have been systematically tested in this population, with the majority evaluating the efficacy of such technologies with studies with small sample sizes [ 7 , 15 , 20 , 21 ]. One study explored the barriers to technology use, with a smartphone app called ‘ForgetMeNot’, which incorporates unsolicited prompts to encourage users to input more reminders [ 22 ].…”

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Informing evaluation of a smartphone application for people with acquired brain injury: a stakeholder engagement study

Kettlewell

Phillips

Radford

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BMC Med Inform Decis Mak

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BackgroundBrain in Hand is a smartphone application (app) that allows users to create structured diaries with problems and solutions, attach reminders, record task completion and has a symptom monitoring system. Brain in Hand was designed to support people with psychological problems, and encourage behaviour monitoring and change. The aim of this paper is to describe the process of exploring the barriers and enablers for the uptake and use of Brain in Hand in clinical practice, identify potential adaptations of the app for use with people with acquired brain injury (ABI), and determine whether the behaviour change wheel can be used as a model for engagement.MethodsWe identified stakeholders: ABI survivors and carers, National Health Service and private healthcare professionals, and engaged with them via focus groups, conference presentations, small group discussions, and through questionnaires. The results were evaluated using the behaviour change wheel and descriptive statistics of questionnaire responses.ResultsWe engaged with 20 ABI survivors, 5 carers, 25 professionals, 41 questionnaires were completed by stakeholders. Comments made during group discussions were supported by questionnaire results. Enablers included smartphone competency (capability), personalisation of app (opportunity), and identifying perceived need (motivation). Barriers included a physical and cognitive inability to use smartphone (capability), potential cost and reliability of technology (opportunity), and no desire to use technology or change from existing strategies (motivation). The stakeholders identified potential uses and changes to the app, which were not easily mapped onto the behaviour change wheel, e.g. monitoring fatigue levels, method of logging task completion, and editing the diary on their smartphone.ConclusionsThe study identified that both ABI survivors and therapists could see a use for Brain in Hand, but wanted users to be able to personalise it themselves to address individual user needs, e.g. monitoring activity levels. The behaviour change wheel is a useful tool when designing and evaluating engagement activities as it addresses most aspects of implementation, however additional categories may be needed to explore the specific features of assistive technology interventions, e.g. technical functions.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s12911-018-0611-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…Conversely, if the patient is making a spontaneous recovery or reacting to time spent with therapist, both the target behavior and the control measure are expected to show progress alike. Example of control measures include speech intelligibility in an intervention for dysphagia (22), naming of untrained words in an aphasia training (21), prospective memory tasks not prompted by the assistive technology being tested (23).…”

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Single-case experimental designs to assess intervention effectiveness in rehabilitation: A practical guide

Krasny-Pacini

Evans

2018

Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine

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Single-case experimental designs (SCED) are experimental designs aiming at testing the effect of an intervention using a small number of patients (typically one to three), using repeated measurements, sequential (±randomized) introduction of an intervention and method-specific data analysis, including visual analysis and specific statistics. The aim of this paper is to familiarise professionals working in different fields of rehabilitation with SCEDs and provide practical advice on how to design and implement a SCED in clinical rehabilitation practice. Research questions suitable for SCEDs and the different types of SCEDs (e.g., alternating treatment designs, introduction/withdrawal designs and multiple baseline designs) are reviewed. Practical steps in preparing a SCED design are outlined. Examples from different rehabilitation domains are provided throughout the paper. Challenging issues such as the choice of the repeated measure, assessment of generalisation, randomization, procedural fidelity, replication and generalizability of findings are discussed. Simple rules and resources for data analysis are presented. The utility of SCEDs in physical and rehabilitation medicine (PRM) are discussed.

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Google Calendar: A single case experimental design study of a man with severe memory problems

Cited by 21 publications

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MindMate: A single case experimental design study of a reminder system for people with dementia

MindMate: A single case experimental design study of a reminder system for people with dementia

Informing evaluation of a smartphone application for people with acquired brain injury: a stakeholder engagement study

Single-case experimental designs to assess intervention effectiveness in rehabilitation: A practical guide

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