Information and communication technology used by people with lower limb loss in Slovenia
Information and communication technology used by people with lower limb loss in Slovenia
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DOI：
10.1097/mrr.0000000000000405
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发表时间：
2020-06-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Burger, Helena
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作者：
Debeljak, Mojca;Vidmar, Gaj;Burger, Helena
随着人口老龄化，世界人口结构正在发生变化，越来越多的残疾人在家中独立生活方面存在问题。创新技术可以帮助延长住在家里的老年人的独立性。作为合作项目的一部分，我们采用问卷调查和回顾性分析的方法调查了老年下肢丧失患者对信息通信技术（ICT）的拥有和使用情况。我们的目的是分析与LLL患者使用ICT相关的因素。我们发现年龄是限制斯洛文尼亚老年LLL患者拥有和使用ICT的主要因素。截肢的原因似乎也有相关性，因为周围血管疾病而截肢的人比那些因为糖尿病而截肢的人更有可能使用个人电脑或平板电脑、社交网络、即时通讯应用程序、电子邮件和互联网。此外，住在郊区的人比住在农村的人更有可能使用健康监测设备。
World demography is changing as the population ages and there are more people with disabilities having problems to stay independently at home. Innovative technologies could help extend the independence of older people living at home. As part of a collaborative project, we investigated ownership and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) among older people with lower limb loss (LLL) using questionnaires and retrospective analysis. Our aim was to analyse factors associated with ICT use among people with LLL. We identified age as the main factor that limits ownership and use of ICT among older people with LLL in Slovenia. Cause of amputation also appears to be relevant, whereby those who had amputation because of peripheral vascular disease are more likely to use a personal or tablet computer, social networks, messaging apps, email and internet than those who had amputation because of diabetes. In addition, those living in the suburbs are more likely to use a health monitoring device than those living in the countryside.