Development of an upper extremity {stroke rehabilitation mHealth application for sub-Saharan Africa: a usability study
Abstract
There is unambiguous evidence that post-stroke rehabilitation facilitates motor recovery and improves quality of life and functional independence. However, there are vast differences in the approach to stroke rehabilitation within sub-Saharan Africa, which are primarily driven by the availability of resources and access to rehabilitation services. The recent global explosion of the adoption of internet communication technologies (ICT), particularly in the case of mobile phones, in subSaharan Africa presents an exciting opportunity to address this need. In this study we co-designed and evaluated the usability of a community-based mHealth application (the outREACH system) for the delivery of personalizable upper extremity stroke assessment and rehabilitation for patients who live in low-resource settings without access to standard rehabilitation services. The results of this work will be used to develop a fully functional system that can be used in clinical rehabilitation of stroke.
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In [61], the sensor was integrated to an application and telemedicine platform.
“Further in [61] they integrated the sensor to application and telemedicine platform.”
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The other paper [61] reports the implementation of this wearable sensor-based mHealth system in a mobile application and tele-rehabilitation service.
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Across the inspected literature, the design and development of wearable sensor-based mHealth approaches is reported only in two papers ([48] and [61]).
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The ITeHP-CV has been successfully launched, and the initial results are encouraging.
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Hughes, C. M. L., Louie, A., Sun, S., Gordon-Murer, C., Belay, G. J., Baye, M., & Zhang, X. (2019) · Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology · doi:10.3389/fbioe.2019.00322 · Cited by 25 · see citing works
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- Authors
- Hughes, C., Mariscal, T., Baye, M., Belay, G. J., Hintze, A., Padilla, A., Warner, S., Sera, M., & Gordon-Murer, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Gondar (ET)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- 2019 IST-Africa Week Conference (IST-Africa)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2019-05
- Pages
- 1-8
- OpenAlex
- W2963667097
- Cited by
- 8
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 3
- FWCI
- 3.08
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa) (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Rehabilitation › Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › ICT in Developing Communities
- Keywords
- stroke rehabilitation, upper limb rehabilitation, mobile health apps, usability evaluation, mobile health, resource-limited settings, sub-Saharan Africa, community-based rehabilitation, stroke assessment, co-design, access to rehabilitation services
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