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ArticleJournal of healthcare engineering2015

Usability of a Wearable Camera System for Dementia Family Caregivers.

Judith T Matthews, Jennifer H Lingler, Grace B Campbell, Amanda E Hunsaker, Lu Hu, Bernardo R Pires, Martial Hebert, Richard Schulz

Open access · hybridAbstract readControlled Clinical Trial
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of healthcare engineering, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. "It's Like a Cyber-Security Blanket": The Utility of Remote Activity Monitoring in Family Dementia Care.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2020
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  7. Smart Environments and Social Robots for Age-Friendly Integrated Care Services.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Judith T Matthews
Jennifer H Lingler
Grace B Campbell
Amanda E Hunsaker
Lu Hu
Bernardo R Pires
Martial Hebert
Richard Schulz
University of Pittsburgh · USCarnegie Mellon University · US

Funding

TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASEP50AG005133 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI BECKER, JAMES T. · 1985 to 2019
$43.0M
VARIABILITY, STABILITY & SMOOTHNESS OF WALKINGP30AG024827 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI JENNIFER S BRACH · 2004 to 2026
$28.6M
First Person Vision for Objective Evaluation of Caregiving QualityR21NR013450 · NINR · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI MATTHEWS, JUDITH T · 2012 to 2013
$410k
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG024827NIA NIH HHS P50 AG005133NIA NIH HHS P50 AG05133NINR NIH HHS 1R21NR013450NINR NIH HHS R21 NR013450
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Health care providers typically rely on family caregivers (CG) of persons with dementia (PWD) to describe difficult behaviors manifested by their underlying disease. Although invaluable, such reports may be selective or biased during brief medical encounters. Our team explored the usability of a wearable camera system with 9 caregiving dyads (CGs: 3 males, 6 females, 67.00 ± 14.95 years; PWDs: 2 males, 7 females, 80.00 ± 3.81 years, MMSE 17.33 ± 8.86) who recorded 79 salient events over a combined total of 140 hours of data capture, from 3 to 7 days of wear per CG. Prior to using the system, CGs assessed its benefits to be worth the invasion of privacy; post-wear privacy concerns did not differ significantly. CGs rated the system easy to learn to use, although cumbersome and obtrusive. Few negative reactions by PWDs were reported or evident in resulting video. Our findings suggest that CGs can and will wear a camera system to reveal their daily caregiving challenges to health care providers.

Indexed as

CaregiversAdultAgedAged, 80 and overDementiaEquipment DesignEquipment Failure AnalysisFemaleHumansMaleMeaningful UseMiddle AgedMonitoring, AmbulatoryPhotographyRemote ConsultationVideo Recording

Identifiers

PMID26288888
PMCPMC4545579
OpenAlexW2110551961

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