ASITE, OVAKPOROYE and Covenant University, Theses (2018) DEVELOPMENT OF CLOUD BASED GERIATRIC HEALTH ASSESSMENT TOOL USING FRAILTY INDEX. Masters thesis, COVENANT UNIVERSITY.
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Abstract
Frailty in the elderly basically implies the vulnerability of older people to adverse health outcomes which can be engendered by different factors. It is apparent that as an individual becomes older, the risk of becoming vulnerable to threats of chronic disease also increases. Therefore a valid, reliable, and concise frailty measure is essential for public health and for all providers who work with older adults. Frailty measure allows for the identification of health factors that predispose an older adult to ill-health as well as directing the development of preventive and treatment interventions. Frailty measure is accomplished via frailty index assessment. The manual process employed in performing these assessments is deemed inefficient because it is prone to human error, misjudgment and bias as well as its electronic counterparts that lack security and data reliability. Although, from previous studies, different systems and approaches have been used to address this problem, these studies have not embraced an integration of several specific health scenarios and frailty algorithms. Also, existing systems do no employ any means of verification, security, proper data storage. Thus, the aim of this study is to improve on the achievements of previous studies by creating a more robust platform that considers three specific health scenarios, which are; Surgery, Cardiology and Oncology. This work also employs a combination of Two Frailty Algorithms; Edmonton Frailty Scale and Physical Phenotype Frailty to develop a prototype Geriatric assessment tool based on Frailty index equipped with verification and security that can be used for Frailty Assessment. The developed system was evaluated using ISO 9241 Usability standard to determine user satisfaction, efficiency and effective in the use of the system. The result of the usability evaluation showed that the developed application has an ‘above average usability’ rating of 3.59 out of 5 scales. This shows that the Geriatric Health Assessment system is usable for testing frailty in elderly people
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Electronics and Computer Science |
| Depositing User: | Mrs Hannah Akinwumi |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Mar 2020 08:45 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Mar 2020 08:45 |
| URI: | http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/13227 |
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