Title

Feasibility and validation of a web-based platform for the self-administered patient collection of demographics, health status, anxiety, depression, and cognition in community dwelling elderly

Authors

·       Matthew Calamia ,

·       Daniel S. Weitzner,

·       Alyssa N. De Vito,

·       John P. K. Bernstein

(Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America)

·       Ray Allen,

·       Jeffrey N. Keller

(Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America)

Date of Publication

January 19, 2021

Series/Report no.

PLoSONE 16(1):e0244962

Key words

*COVID-19

*WEB-based user interfaces

*MENTAL depression

*OLDER people

*COGNITION

Abstract

The coronavirus disease pandemic has brought a new urgency for the development and deployment of web-based applications which complement, and offer alternatives to, traditional one-on-one consultations and pencil-and-paper (PaP) based assessments that currently dominate clinical research. We have recently developed a web-based application that can be used for the self-administered collection of patient demographics, self-rated health, depression and anxiety, and cognition as part of a single platform. In this study we report the findings from a study with 155 cognitively healthy older adults who received established PaP versions, as well as our novel computerized measures of self-rated health, depression and anxiety, and cognition. Moderate to high correlations were observed between PaP and web- based measures of self-rated health (r = 0.77), depression and anxiety (r = 0.72), and preclinical Alzheimer’s disease cognitive composite (PACC) (r = .61). Test-retest correlations were variable with high correlations for a measure of processing speed and a measure of delayed episodic memory. Taken together, these data support the feasibility and validity of utilization of this novel web-based platform as a new alternative for collecting patient demographics and the assessment of self-rated health, depression and anxiety, and cognition in the elderly.

주요 내용

COVID-19는 현재 임상 연구의 큰 비중을 차지하는 기존의 일대일 상담 및 pencil-and-paper (PaP) based assessments를 보완하고 대안을 제공하는 웹 기반 애플리케이션의 개발 및 상용화에 필요성을 야기했다.   최근에 단일 플랫폼의 일부로 환자 인구 통계, 자가 평가 건강, 우울증 및 불안, 인지 등 자가 관리에 사용할 수 있는 웹 기반 애플리케이션이 개발되었다. 이 연구에서는 established PaP versions을 받은 인지적으로 건강한 노인 155 명을 대상으로 한 연구 결과와 novel computerized measures of self-rated health, depression and anxiety, and cognition 결과를 보고한다. 

ISSN

1932-6203

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0244962