A review of applications for the improvement of the life quality in patients with mental disorders

Author

de la Torre, I. ; Martinez, Brais ; Lopez-Coronado, Miguel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Signal Theor. & Commun., Univ. of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

fYear

2013

fDate

9-12 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

182

Lastpage

187

Abstract

Mental disorders are the main cause of disability worldwide, and they cause a high social impact, a significant deterioration in people´s cognitive and physical level and an important economic weakening to current health care systems. These facts show the importance of design, development and implementation of applications aimed at achieving an improvement of patients´ quality of life. This paper researches and analyzes several technological applications in this field and how they contribute to improving the situation of the three main actors: the patients, society (family, physicians, caregivers, etc.) and the healthcare system.

Keywords

computer applications; handicapped aids; health care; medical disorders; patient care; patient treatment; psychology; socio-economic effects; telemedicine; virtual reality; cognitive level deterioration; economic impact; health care systems; mental disorder patients; patient life quality improvement; physical level deterioration; social impact; technological application design; technological application development; technological application implementation; Diseases; Educational institutions; Games; Medical treatment; Mental disorders; Psychology; Software; applications; mental disorders; quality of life; software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Health Networking, Applications & Services (Healthcom), 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5800-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HealthCom.2013.6720663

Filename

6720663