mHealth and memory aids: levels of smartphone ownership in patients

Abstract

Despite cognitive or psychiatric problems, our patient group are as likely to own a mobile phone as a member of the general population. Ownership levels are at 40% and likely to increase in the future. Exploring how smartphones and their apps could function as memory aids is likely to be useful for a large enough number of patients to be clinically worthwhile.

Designing meaningful outcome parameters using mobile technology: a new mobile application for telemonitoring of patients with heart failure

“…Results of clinical examinations at baseline and during follow-up are listed in Table 1. All patients exhibited severe Cardiopulmonary exercise testing Exercise time 16 8.5 ± 3.9 5 8.5 ± 4.5 10 Designing meaningful outcome parameters using mobile technology HFrEF at the time of inclusion with markedly reduced LVEF, CPET capacity, and elevated N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP). Initial questionnaires reflected reduced health-related QoL (MLHFQ and KCCQ) and pathological values in our screening tools for depression (PHQ-9) and heart-focused anxiety (CAQ).…”

“…10 Mobile health (mHealth) applications proved useful to provide assistance in self-management, 11 symptom monitoring, 12 and home-based cardiac rehabilitation. 10 Mobile health (mHealth) applications proved useful to provide assistance in self-management, 11 symptom monitoring, 12 and home-based cardiac rehabilitation.…”

“…A promising possibility for TM of HF patients are commercially available mobile devices such as smartphones and smartwatches that are increasingly widespread in the general population. 10 Mobile health (mHealth) applications proved useful to provide assistance in self-management, 11 symptom monitoring, 12 and home-based cardiac rehabilitation. 13 In addition, smart devices have the potential to generate new patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in HF patients.…”

Strategic use of reminders: Influence of both domain-general and task-specific metacognitive confidence, independent of objective memory ability

“…If we are to understand how intentions are fulfilled in everyday life it is therefore important to understand how we decide whether or not to set reminders, and what interventions might affect these decisions. This is likely to become increasingly important as smartphones and wearable technologies become more commonplace (Migo et al, 2014;Svoboda, Rowe, & Murphy, 2012). It also has practical relevance to compensation for memory difficulties in the context of ageing, disease, and brain injury (Fish, Wilson, & Manly, 2010;Thöne-Otto & Walther, 2008;Wilson, Emslie, Quirk, & Evans, 2001).…”

Racing towards a digital paradise or a digital hell?

“…The digital health field was estimated to be worth $25b globally in 2017 (Duggal, Brindle, & Bagenal, 2018;The Lancet, 2017) with one US survey finding that 58% of smartphone users had downloaded at least one health app (Pai, 2015). Although mental health service user ownership of smartphones has increased (Migo et al, 2015) there is still evidence of a digital divide (Ennis, Rose, Denis, Pandit, & Wykes, 2012;Girard, Nubukpo, & Malauzat, 2017;Robotham, Satkunanathan, Doughty, & Wykes, 2016;Tobitt & Percival, 2019). Any benefits for those experiencing mental health problems are, therefore, likely to be less than in the general public, due to lack of access and skills.…”