Mobile-Health Technologies for a Child Neuropsychiatry Service: Development and Usability of the Assioma Digital Platform

Elisa Fucà, Floriana Costanzo, Dimitri Bonutto, Annarita Moretti, Andrea Fini, Alberto Ferraiuolo, Stefano Vicari and Alberto Eugenio Tozzi
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Elisa Fucà: Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy
Floriana Costanzo: Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy
Dimitri Bonutto: Multifactorial and Complex Disease Research Area, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital IRCCS, Piazza S. Onofrio 4, 00165 Rome, Italy
Annarita Moretti: Topnetwork S.p.A, 00142 Rome, Italy
Andrea Fini: Topnetwork S.p.A, 00142 Rome, Italy
Alberto Ferraiuolo: Topnetwork S.p.A, 00142 Rome, Italy
Stefano Vicari: Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy
Alberto Eugenio Tozzi: Multifactorial and Complex Disease Research Area, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital IRCCS, Piazza S. Onofrio 4, 00165 Rome, Italy

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 5, 1-17

Abstract: We developed an m-Health platform to support clinical pathways in a child and adolescent neuropsychiatry unit. The Assioma platform was created for tablets, smartphones and PCs, to support data collection and clinical workflow, to promote constant communication between patients, caregivers and clinicians, and to promote active family involvement in day hospital (DH) procedures. Through the Assioma application for tablets, caregivers filled out an anamnestic questionnaire and explored contents on the DH procedures and neurodevelopmental conditions. The application for smartphones included an agenda function for the DH pathways. Through the application for desktops, clinicians could export anamnestic information in text and Excel formats, send real-time notifications, and push relative contents to families’ account. We tested the usability and satisfaction of the Assioma platform in a group of children, caregivers (N = 24) and clinicians (N = 6). Both families and clinicians gave high scores to almost all usability items. The overall satisfaction reached the highest levels at 50% satisfied for families and at 33% for clinicians. Our results indicate that the Assioma platform has the potential to optimize clinical pathways, increasing compliance and clinical efficiency, and to reduce in-person contacts supporting social distancing for clinical pathways, a crucial need during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: mHealth; child neuropsychiatry; day hospital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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