Preliminary Evaluation of PTSD Coach, a Smartphone App for Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms
Preliminary Evaluation of PTSD Coach, a Smartphone App for Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms
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DOI：
10.7205/milmed-d-13-00271
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发表时间：
2014-01-01
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Ruzek, Josef
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作者：
Kuhn, Eric;Greene, Carolyn;Ruzek, Josef
PTSD教练是一个移动的应用程序（应用程序），旨在帮助个人谁有创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）症状更好地了解和自我管理他们的症状。它有广泛的使用（在78个国家有超过130，000次下载）和非常有利的评论，但尚未进行评估。因此，本研究探讨用户满意度，感知的帮助，和使用模式的创伤后应激障碍教练的样本中的45名退伍军人接受创伤后应激障碍治疗。在使用PTSD Coach几天后，参与者完成了一项满意度和感知帮助的调查，以及探索应用程序使用和使用受益的焦点小组。数据表明，参与者对PTSD教练非常满意，并认为它对他们的PTSD症状有中度到非常大的帮助。对焦点小组数据的分析得出了几类应用程序的用途：在预定时间管理急性痛苦和创伤后应激障碍症状，以及帮助睡眠。这些研究结果提供了初步支持的可接受性和感知的帮助创伤后应激障碍教练，并建议它有潜力成为一个有效的自我管理工具创伤后应激障碍。尽管前景看好，但鉴于研究的局限性，需要未来的研究来验证这一点。
PTSD Coach is a mobile application (app) designed to help individuals who have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms better understand and self-manage their symptoms. It has wide-scale use (over 130,000 downloads in 78 countries) and very favorable reviews but has yet to be evaluated. Therefore, this study examines user satisfaction, perceived helpfulness, and usage patterns of PTSD Coach in a sample of 45 veterans receiving PTSD treatment. After using PTSD Coach for several days, participants completed a survey of satisfaction and perceived helpfulness and focus groups exploring app use and benefit from use. Data indicate that participants were very satisfied with PTSD Coach and perceived it as being moderately to very helpful with their PTSD symptoms. Analysis of focus group data resulted in several categories of app use: to manage acute distress and PTSD symptoms, at scheduled times, and to help with sleep. These findings offer preliminary support for the acceptability and perceived helpfulness of PTSD Coach and suggest that it has potential to be an effective self-management tool for PTSD. Although promising, future research is required to validate this, given study limitations.