The Effects of a Mobile Computerized System for Individual Tailored Home Care Services in a City

Article information

Res Community Public Health Nurs. 2012;23(1):71-81

Publication date (electronic) : 2012 March 31

doi : https://doi.org/10.0000/jkachn.2012.23.1.71

Nam Hee Park ¹, Rang Jang ², Jung Young Kim ³, Myoung Soo Kim ⁴

¹Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Inje University, Busan, Korea.

²Visiting Health Manager, Health Promotion Division, Busan Metropolitan City, Busan, Korea.

³Visiting Health Supervisor, Health Promotion Division, Busan Metropolitan City, Busan, Korea.

⁴Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea.

Corresponding author: Kim, Myoung Soo. Department of Nursing, Pukyong National University, 599-1 Daeyeon 3-dong, Nam-gu, Busan 608-737, Korea. Tel: +82-51-629-5782, Fax: +82-51-629-7906, kanosa@pknu.ac.kr

Received 2011 October 31; Revised 2012 February 28; Accepted 2012 March 13.

Abstract

Purpose

The aim of this study was to evaluate the process and outcome of a mobile computerized system for individual home visiting healthcare.

Methods

A nonequivalent control group non-synchronized design was employed for this study. The newly constructed system was administered to 80 healthcare providers in the experimental group for 8 weeks. Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis, t-test, and ANCOVA with the SPSS 18.0 program.

Results

In the process stage, the difference in the frequency of computerized information usage between the experimental and control groups was significant as 8.88±3.20 and 7.08±2.92, respectively (t=3.90, p<.001). In the outcome evaluation stage, all kinds of healthy lifestyle such as alcohol use, nutrition, weight management and mental health were not improved.

Conclusion

The findings of this study showed that the revised mobile computerized system was an effective device for individual visiting healthcare providers. Further advanced strategies for using this system should be developed and applied in a broad range of community healthcare.

Keywords: Home care service; Mobile health units; Program evaluation

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