Research Article
Findings of Mobile based Palliative Care System: Towards a Generic Framework for Measuring QoL
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.254960, author={Md Haque and Md Adibuzzaman and Md Uddin and Ferdaus Kawsar and Sheikh Ahamed and Richard Love and David Roe and Rumana Dowla and Tahmina Ferdousy and Reza Salim}, title={Findings of Mobile based Palliative Care System: Towards a Generic Framework for Measuring QoL}, proceedings={8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare}, publisher={ICST}, proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH}, year={2014}, month={7}, keywords={health breast cancer mobile computing qol}, doi={10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.254960} }- Md Haque
Md Adibuzzaman
Md Uddin
Ferdaus Kawsar
Sheikh Ahamed
Richard Love
David Roe
Rumana Dowla
Tahmina Ferdousy
Reza Salim
Year: 2014
Findings of Mobile based Palliative Care System: Towards a Generic Framework for Measuring QoL
PERVASIVEHEALTH
ACM
DOI: 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.254960
Abstract
Here we present the final analysis result of e-ESAS, a mobile based symptom monitoring and management system for terminally ill breast cancer (BC) patients in rural Bangladesh. These patients need palliative care support whose goal is to meet patients’ social, spiritual and psychological needs as well as alleviating pain and other symptoms. But in the context of rural Bangladesh, doctors find it very difficult to control even the most significant symptom ‘pain’ due to a lack of history of symptom data. In this scenario we have deployed e-ESAS which has been used by 10 patients to submit symptom values from their home for 10 months (Nov ’11- Sep ’12). Our results show how e-ESAS with motivational videos not only helped the patients to have a ‘dignified’ life but also helped the doctors to achieve the goals of palliative care. Also the analyzed results are shown in 4 categories to appropriately measure the contribution of e-ESAS in improving the quality of life (QoL) of the patients.