Patient Centered Design: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Working with Health Professionals and Schizophrenic Patients in e-Therapy Contexts

Patient Centered Design: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Working with Health Professionals and Schizophrenic Patients in e-Therapy Contexts

Catarina I. Reis (Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal), Carla S. Freire (Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal), Joaquin Fernández (Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Spain) and Josep M. Monguet (Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Spain)
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781466636675|ISBN10: 146663667X|EISBN13: 9781466636682
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3667-5.ch008
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Reis, Catarina I., Carla S. Freire, Joaquin Fernández and Josep M. Monguet. "Patient Centered Design: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Working with Health Professionals and Schizophrenic Patients in e-Therapy Contexts." Information Systems and Technologies for Enhancing Health and Social Care. IGI Global, 2013. 120-135. Web. 27 Mar. 2020. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-3667-5.ch008

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Reis, C. I., Freire, C. S., Fernández, J., & Monguet, J. M. (2013). Patient Centered Design: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Working with Health Professionals and Schizophrenic Patients in e-Therapy Contexts. In R. Martinho, R. Rijo, M. Cruz-Cunha, & J. Varajão (Eds.), Information Systems and Technologies for Enhancing Health and Social Care (pp. 120-135). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-3667-5.ch008

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Reis, Catarina I., Carla S. Freire, Joaquin Fernández and Josep M. Monguet. "Patient Centered Design: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Working with Health Professionals and Schizophrenic Patients in e-Therapy Contexts." In Information Systems and Technologies for Enhancing Health and Social Care, ed. Ricardo Martinho, Rui Rijo, Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha and João Varajão, 120-135 (2013), accessed March 27, 2020. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-3667-5.ch008

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Abstract

Patient-Centered Design (PCD) is a particular type of User-Centered Design (UCD), where the end-user is a patient that will use an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solution for healthcare. It focuses on needs, wants, and skills of the product’s primary user and implies involving end-users in the decision-making and development process of the solution. e-Therapy aims to provide support to therapy sessions through ICT solutions. It has grown in the last years, and in the mental health arena is being used for specific therapeutic contexts. It is an especially difficult environment due to specificities of the patients’ conditions and the physical access to patients being restricted and, sometimes, not even possible. Thus, a PCD approach can be accomplished through the health professionals involved, applying some of the most well known methods of UCD: interviews, questionnaires, focus groups, and participatory design. eSchi is an e-Therapy tool that complements traditional practices for the cognitive rehabilitation and training of schizophrenic patients. It was successfully developed using a PCD approach.

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