Abstract
Frailty is a clinical syndrome whose signs and symptoms are predictors of health complications, making this a major public health problem. FRAILSURVEY, which was considered a good practice by several entities, is a smartphone application that allows an easy assessment of frailty, available in Portuguese, English and Italian, on both iOS and Android stores. Smartphone-based assessment has been proven to be a useful diagnostic tool for patients, although few applications have demonstrated reliability. With this work we aimed to test the reliability of FRAILSURVEY as a tool to assess frailty, and to study people’s preference on which way to assess frailty. FRAILSURVEY is a questionnaire that comprises two sets of questions: 19 about sociodemographic data, social resources, self-perception of health, nutrition, medication, psycho-social and cognitive status, and time occupation, plus a set of 15 used to assess frailty status, the Groningen Frailty Indicator (GFI). Including 427 older adults in this study, a randomized repeated measures crossover design was employed using the FRAILSURVEY questionnaire both in paper and in application, with a week of interval to reduce carryover effects. Reliability was assessed through the GFI scores obtained by the same person between the paper and application. There were no significant differences between the results on frailty assessment using the questionnaire on both paper and application. A significant correlation was noted in the total group (ICC=.794, P<0.01). Our work shows that FRAILSURVEY is a reliable mobile application for frailty assessment, that can be used by older adults, caregivers, and health professionals.
Highlights
We conducted a pilot evaluation of Philips CarePartners Mobile (CPM), a prototype smartphone application that provides communication and coordination support to a “circle” of informal caregivers (ICGs) assisting an older adult
These results demonstrate that symptoms experience can be assessed using caregiver observations, further work may be needed to enable caregivers to provide a comprehensive assessment
FRAILSURVEY, which was considered a good practice by several entities, is a smartphone application that allows an easy assessment of frailty, available in Portuguese, English and Italian, on both iOS and Android stores
Summary
EXPLORING TECHNOLOGY-ENABLED ASSESSMENTS OF SYMPTOMS EXPERIENCE BY INFORMAL CAREGIVERS Daniel J. Philips Research North America, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 2. Many older adults receive frequent care and contact from family, friends, and other informal caregivers (ICGs). We conducted a pilot evaluation of Philips CarePartners Mobile (CPM), a prototype smartphone application that provides communication and coordination support to a “circle” of ICGs assisting an older adult.
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