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DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1708517
Usage Evaluation of a Mobile App to Help Understand the Rehabilitation Process of Shoulder Surgery[*]
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Abstract
Objective The present paper aims to evaluate the quality of a mobile phone application (app) designed to guide patients after shoulder surgical procedures.
Methods A free and easily accessible app was developed to help patients at home. Patients were monitored for app use and adaptation before physical therapy started. At the end of 6 weeks, a qualitative questionnaire was employed to determine the usability of the app.
Results In total, 97% of the respondents reported that the app was easy to download, the exercises were readily understood, and they would recommend the app. Ninety-three percent of the participants agreed that the app made them feel a greater degree of participation in the treatment of their illness, while 90% considered the app self-explanatory.
Conclusion The virtual platform helps the patients to understand the treatment, aiding the medical prescription of postoperative exercises to be performed at home.
* The present study was developed at the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
Publikationsverlauf
Eingereicht: 10. Juni 2019
Angenommen: 20. Dezember 2019
Artikel online veröffentlicht:
08. Juni 2020
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