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The Role of Health Status in Older Adults’ Perceptions of the Usefulness of eHealth Technology Read chapter Read first chapter

2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Lack of Development and Usability Descriptions in Evaluation Reports on Online Health Information Tools for Older Patients

Authors : Sifra Bolle, Julia C. M. van Weert, Ellen. M. A. Smets, Eugène F. Loos

Published in: Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for Everyday Life

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

New media play an increasing role in the everyday life of older individuals. They extensively use the Internet to search for health-related information. In our systematic review we found that online health information tools have been proven to be effective in improving self-efficacy and several clinical outcomes in older (≥ 65 years) patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the development and usability of the effective online health information tools. The reporting of the development of the online health information tools turned out to be too succinct. Moreover, we were unable to evaluate the usability of online health information tools as none of them were publicly available. We argue the need to report more detailed information about the development and usability of online health information tools in evaluation studies in order to replicate findings and to develop new evidence-based online health information tools for older patients.

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Metadata
Title
Lack of Development and Usability Descriptions in Evaluation Reports on Online Health Information Tools for Older Patients
Authors
Sifra Bolle
Julia C. M. van Weert
Ellen. M. A. Smets
Eugène F. Loos
Copyright Year
2015
Book
Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for Everyday Life

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-20912-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-20913-5

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20913-5_3