Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
e-Health Networking, Applications & Services (Healthcom), 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lisbon
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5800-2
DOI :
10.1109/HealthCom.2013.6720663
