Evaluation of IT-based Communication between Dementia Patient's Family and Caregivers

我们考察了痴呆症患者家属和照顾者之间基于信息技术的沟通的有效性。我们考察了三点：家庭和照顾者之间的沟通是否增加；信息交换如何影响患者家人感受到的护理衍生压力；基于IT的沟通媒体的使用是否增加了照顾者在行政工作上花费的时间。结果表明，沟通的增加降低了患者家属的焦虑，与纸质沟通相比，信息沟通并没有增加照顾者日常行政工作的负担。

We examined the effectiveness of IT-based communication between dementia patient's family and caregivers. There were three points we examined : does communication between family and caregivers increase ; how does information exchange affect care-derived stress that patient's family feel ; whether the use of IT-based communication media increase the time that caregivers spent on administrative work. The results indicated that the increase of communication decrease the anxiety of patient's family, and IT-based communication does not increase the burden that caregivers' put on their daily administrative work compared to their paper-based work.