Inpatient Trial of a Tablet App for Communicating Brain Injury Rehabilitation Goals.
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PURPOSE: We examine the use of a custom iPad application, the Rehab Portal, to provide clients in an inpatient brain injury rehabilitation service with access to short videos where clinicians-or the clients themselves-discuss their current rehabilitation goals. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We developed an initial version of the Rehab Portal app based on our previous co-design with service users, their families, and clinicians. This was examined in a field trial with a series of six clients over the course of their stays in inpatient rehabilitation, collecting quantitative data on clinician and client engagement with the Rehab Portal, alongside a thematic analysis of qualitative interviews with clients and clinicians at the point of discharge. RESULTS: Engagement with the platform was high for two clients while it was limited with four more. In our thematic analysis we discuss how introduction of the Rehab Portal disrupted practice, changing how things are done, causing deviation from usual routines, adding burden, and threatening professional integrity. At the same time, where it worked well it led to a repositioning of goal planning away from being clinician directed and towards an ongoing, dynamic collaboration between clinicians, clients and their families. Finally, in some cases we identified a reverting to the status quo, with client demotivation having an unexpected impact on clinician behaviour leading to the process being abandoned. CONCLUSIONS: The current findings do not provide wholesale support for this approach, yet we continue to feel that approaches that support clinician-client communication using asynchronous video may offer considerable future value and are worthy of further investigation.Description
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co-design, cognitive prosthetic, engagement, mobile technology, rehabilitation, rehabilitation goals, tablet, technology, Traumatic brain injury, Traumatic brain injury, co-design, cognitive prosthetic, engagement, mobile technology, rehabilitation, rehabilitation goals, tablet, technology, 4201 Allied Health and Rehabilitation Science, 4203 Health Services and Systems, 42 Health Sciences, Behavioral and Social Science, Neurosciences, Rehabilitation, Brain Disorders, Physical Rehabilitation, 3 Good Health and Well Being, 1103 Clinical Sciences, 1117 Public Health and Health Services, Rehabilitation, 4007 Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics, 4201 Allied health and rehabilitation science, 4203 Health services and systems
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Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology, ISSN: 1748-3107 (Print); 1748-3115 (Online), Taylor and Francis Group, 19(4), 1287-1297. doi: 10.1080/17483107.2023.2167009
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