ArticleThe American journal of hospice & palliative care2018
Mobile Health Technology Is Here-But Are Hospice Informal Caregivers Receptive?
Article in The American journal of hospice & palliative care, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Self-directed learning of informal caregivers using mobile health: a systematic review.BMC health services research · 2025Pooled it
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- Mobile Health in Home-Based Palliative Care: Realist Review of Contextual Factors and Mechanisms Influencing Outcomes.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Review
- AppER: Design and Validation of a Mobile Application for Caregivers of Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and Their Families in Spain and Latin America.Muscles (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Detecting user experience issues from mHealth apps that support stroke caregiver needs: an analysis of user reviews.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Developing an mHealth Application to Coordinate Nurse-Provided Respite Care Services for Families Coping With Palliative-Stage Cancer: Protocol for a User-Centered Design Study.JMIR research protocols · 2021Article
- Rethinking palliative care in a public health context: addressing the needs of persons with non-communicable chronic diseases.Primary health care research & development · 2020Article
- Challenges and Recommendations for the Deployment of Information and Communication Technology Solutions for Informal Caregivers: Scoping Review.JMIR aging · 2020Article
- Building trust and facilitating goals of care conversations: A qualitative study in people with heart failure receiving home hospice care.Palliative medicine · 2020Article
- "We're Taking Something So Human and Trying to Digitize": Provider Recommendations for mHealth in Palliative Care.Journal of palliative medicine · 2020Article
- Digital Mental Health Tools for Caregivers of Older Adults-A Scoping Review.Frontiers in public health · 2020Article
- Home Hospice Caregivers' Perceived Information Needs.The American journal of hospice & palliative care · 2019Article
- Mobile phone apps for family caregivers: A scoping review and qualitative content analysis.Digital healthArticle
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10 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
background: Mobile health applications (mHealth apps) represent a rapidly emerging technology that is being used to improve health-care delivery. In home hospice, informal caregivers play an essential role in attending to the day-to-day needs of their terminally ill loved ones. Using mHealth apps by caregivers in this setting could potentially improve the support provided to both patients and caregivers at the end of life (EoL).
objectives: To explore informal caregivers' receptivity and concerns in using mHealth apps along with app features, caregivers perceived to be most useful in home hospice care.
design: Eighty semistructured phone interviews were conducted with informal caregivers who received care from a nonprofit hospice organization. Study data were analyzed using content analysis, coding for themes of receptivity and interest.
results: Sixty-two (78%) participants were receptive to using an mHealth app in home hospice care. Informal caregivers were interested in features that addressed: (1) communication to improve patient care (n = 44, 70%), (2) access to patient care information (n = 30, 48%), (3) education (n = 24, 39%), and (4) updates from health-care personnel and scheduling services (n = 10, 16%).
conclusions: A substantial majority of informal caregivers voiced receptivity to using mHealth apps and expressed interest in features that enhance communication and provide information to improve patient care. Although more research is needed to examine how to incorporate this technology into existing home hospice care, our study suggests that informal caregivers are likely to use this technology they feel will help enhance home-based EoL care delivery.
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