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Authors: Juliana Gomes Ramalho de Oliveira ; José Eurico Vasconcelos Filho and Geraldo Bezerra da Silva Junior

Affiliation: University of Fortaleza, Brazil

Keyword(s): Chronic Renal Insufficiency, Health Education, Biomedical Technology, Dialysis, Kidney Transplantation.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Biomedical Engineering ; Distributed and Mobile Software Systems ; Health Engineering and Technology Applications ; Health Information Systems ; Mobile Technologies ; Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications ; Neural Rehabilitation ; Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics ; Software Engineering

Abstract: The aim of this study was to create an application for smartphones for chronic kidney disease (CKD). The development of the application was conducted in three phases: data collection, conception and development of an application called “Renal Health”. In the first phase, a literature review was conducted to ground the necessity of a tool to teach the general population about CKD and to give support to CKD patients in their treatment. Semi-structured interviews were then conducted with CKD patients (in hemodialysis or kidney transplant) and the general population to enhance out understanding of the main knowledge gaps about kidney disease. Individuals without CKD reported not knowing the disease (66.7%). Patients on hemodialysis reported difficulties with medication intake and diet (>50%). Transplanted patients had no problems with medication intake and showed to want more nutritional advices. After the development of the application, an usability test was done with CKD patie nts and specialists to evaluate its clarity and performance, and its acceptance was 89.6%. The use of Renal Health application can be an important tool for the general population, for knowledge acquisition, patients, health care workers, as well as patients’ family and caregivers of elderly and children patients. (More)

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Gomes Ramalho de Oliveira, J.; Vasconcelos Filho, J. and Bezerra da Silva Junior, G. (2018). Renal Health - A New Tool for Chronic Kidney Disease - Application Development and a Proposal for Interventional Study. In Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2018) - HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-281-3; ISSN 2184-4305, SciTePress, pages 261-265. DOI: 10.5220/0006533302610265

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title={Renal Health - A New Tool for Chronic Kidney Disease - Application Development and a Proposal for Interventional Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2018) - HEALTHINF},
year={2018},
pages={261-265},
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doi={10.5220/0006533302610265},
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TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2018) - HEALTHINF
TI - Renal Health - A New Tool for Chronic Kidney Disease - Application Development and a Proposal for Interventional Study
SN - 978-989-758-281-3
IS - 2184-4305
AU - Gomes Ramalho de Oliveira, J.
AU - Vasconcelos Filho, J.
AU - Bezerra da Silva Junior, G.
PY - 2018
SP - 261
EP - 265
DO - 10.5220/0006533302610265
PB - SciTePress