Development of an electronic system for self/proxy symptom tracking alongside children with cancer and their caregivers: a co-design exemplar.

Purpose: Symptom tracking systems are essential for identifying symptoms in patients, prompting timely clinical intervention to reduce suffering and improve outcomes for children with cancer. Electronic patient-reported outcome tools have been designed to assess the presence and severity of symptoms and notify clinicians of the patient's condition, facilitating quick and effective symptom management. Utilizing co-design methods allows end user input in the tool development process.

Creating User Personas to Represent the Needs of Dementia Caregivers Who Support Medication Management at Home: Persona Development and Qualitative Study.

Background: Caregiver-assisted medication management plays a critical role in promoting medication adherence and quality of life for people living with Alzheimer disease or related dementias (ADRD). The current landscape of digital and nondigital interventions to support medication management does not meet caregivers' needs, contexts, and levels of technological proficiency. Intervention development can be facilitated using personas or data-driven archetypes that represent end users' traits relevant to solution design.

A digital health kiosk is acceptable, usable, and improves decisions about high-risk over-the-counter medications when used by older adults: Results of formative user testing.

Background: Older adults' use of anticholinergic medications is associated with increased risks. Despite widespread use of over-the-counter (OTC) anticholinergics, interventions to decrease older adults' anticholinergic use have focused mainly on deprescribing of prescription anticholinergics, with little attention to OTC anticholinergics. Consumer-facing health technology in community pharmacy settings may decrease older adults' OTC anticholinergic use.

Correction: Investigating the Best Practices for Engagement in Remote Participatory Design: Mixed Methods Analysis of 4 Remote Studies With Family Caregivers.

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Investigating the Best Practices for Engagement in Remote Participatory Design: Mixed Methods Analysis of 4 Remote Studies With Family Caregivers.

Background: Digital health interventions are a promising method for delivering timely support to underresourced family caregivers. The uptake of digital health interventions among caregivers may be improved by engaging caregivers in participatory design (PD). In recent years, there has been a shift toward conducting PD remotely, which may enable participation by previously hard-to-reach groups.

Helping the Helpers - A research protocol for user-centered technology to aid caregiver management of medications for people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

Background And Objective: Systematically supporting caregiver-assisted medication management through IT interventions is a critical area of need toward improving outcomes for people living with ADRD and their caregivers, but a significant gap exists in the evidence base from which IT interventions to support caregivers' medication tasks can be built. User-centered design can address the user needs evidence gap and provide a scientific mechanism for developing IT interventions that meet caregivers' needs. The present study employs the three phases of user-centered design to address the first two stages of the NIH Stage Model for Behavioral Intervention Development.

The Feasibility of a Using a Smart Button Mobile Health System to Self-Track Medication Adherence and Deliver Tailored Short Message Service Text Message Feedback.

Background: As many as 50% of people experience medication nonadherence, yet studies for detecting nonadherence and delivering real-time interventions to improve adherence are lacking. Mobile health (mHealth) technologies show promise to track and support medication adherence.

Objective: The study aimed to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of using an mHealth system for medication adherence tracking and intervention delivery.

Characteristics of Adults Managing Vitamins/Supplements and Prescribed Medications-Who Is Using, Not Using, and Abandoning Use of Pillboxes?: A Descriptive Study.

Purpose: Evidence suggests pillboxes are effective for improving medication adherence. However, prior descriptive studies about pillbox use are limited to studies of older adults or condition-specific studies. This study describes characteristics of adults with chronic conditions and their use of pillboxes.