Development and evaluation of a support program for the patients life-style related diseases using a nursing personal digital assistant (PDA)

一名研究人员、健康的年轻人和一名糖尿病患者都使用了成品系统，一些需要改进的地方变得清晰起来。最大的问题是屏幕的大小和要输入的字符和数字的大小。对于PDA来说，根本不可能解决这个问题。但是我们可以为老年人和视力下降的人提供支持，因为这个系统可以用在所有的模型上，PHP可以用在大屏幕的模型上。这样就失去了可移植性的优势，但该系统的优点在于它可以支持各种可以轻松使用的情况。此外，在数据库中积累信息，并进行数据分析。这种分析被用于自我保健的评估。我们向4名糖尿病患者租用了一台PDA，为期1个月，我们要求他们输入有关他们的自我保健情况的信息。他们回答说，4人都立即掌握了PDA的使用方法，但有一人因为字符大小的问题，一个月都无法继续使用PDA。在一个月的评估结束时，我们发现使用PDA的积极结果如下：自我护理意识增强，PDA比在纸上写下事情更好，持续自我护理的可能性也似乎更好。我们的评估显示，他们希望继续使用该系统，并确认使用PDA进行自我护理支持的有效性。另一方面，人们可能会认为，对于从未使用过互联网的高级用户来说，操作PDA是困难的，这是一个需要进一步调查的问题。

A researcher, healthy young people and a diabetic each used the finished system, and some needed refinements became clear. The largest problem was the size of the screen and the size of the characters and figures to be input. With a PDA, it was impossible to solve this problem radically. But we can support for people of advanced age and the people who eyesight is reduced because this system can be used in all models in which PHP works by models with a large screen. The advantage of portability is lost by this, but the good point of this system is that it can support a wide range of situations where it can be easily used.In addition, information was accumulated in a database, and data analysis was enabled. This analysis is made use of for evaluation in self-care.A PDA was rented to four diabetics for about 1 month, and we asked them to input information about their self-care situation. They answered that all four of them understood how to use the PDA immediately, but, because of the problem of character size, one person was not able to continue using the PDA for one month.At the end of one month's evaluation we found the following positive results from using a PDA: a consciousness of self-care was strengthened, the PDA was better than writhing things down on paper, and the probability of continued self-care also seemed better. Our evaluation showed that they wished to continue using this system and confirmed the effectiveness of self-care support using a PDA. On the other hand, it may be thought that it is difficult for people of advanced use who have never used the Internet to operate a PDA and this is an issue that requires further investigation.