Apps for Children with Disabilities: Effectiveness of Mobile Health Technology for Adherence and Engagement with Home Therapy Programmes
This thesis investigated the use of a commercially available therapy prescription app to deliver home programmes for children with disabilities in a randomised controlled trial. With no improvements in program adherence, and feedback from the children that the app was boring, a new gamified therapy...
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Curtin University
2024
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| author | Johnson, Rowan Winston |
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| description | This thesis investigated the use of a commercially available therapy prescription app to deliver home programmes for children with disabilities in a randomised controlled trial. With no improvements in program adherence, and feedback from the children that the app was boring, a new gamified therapy app, Zingo, was then developed and tested specifically for children. The Zingo app was found to be fun and motivating for children with disabilities. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-954272024-07-04T00:29:20Z Apps for Children with Disabilities: Effectiveness of Mobile Health Technology for Adherence and Engagement with Home Therapy Programmes Johnson, Rowan Winston This thesis investigated the use of a commercially available therapy prescription app to deliver home programmes for children with disabilities in a randomised controlled trial. With no improvements in program adherence, and feedback from the children that the app was boring, a new gamified therapy app, Zingo, was then developed and tested specifically for children. The Zingo app was found to be fun and motivating for children with disabilities. 2024 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95427 Curtin University restricted |
| spellingShingle | Johnson, Rowan Winston Apps for Children with Disabilities: Effectiveness of Mobile Health Technology for Adherence and Engagement with Home Therapy Programmes |
| title | Apps for Children with Disabilities: Effectiveness of Mobile
Health Technology for Adherence and Engagement with
Home Therapy Programmes |
| title_full | Apps for Children with Disabilities: Effectiveness of Mobile
Health Technology for Adherence and Engagement with
Home Therapy Programmes |
| title_fullStr | Apps for Children with Disabilities: Effectiveness of Mobile
Health Technology for Adherence and Engagement with
Home Therapy Programmes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Apps for Children with Disabilities: Effectiveness of Mobile
Health Technology for Adherence and Engagement with
Home Therapy Programmes |
| title_short | Apps for Children with Disabilities: Effectiveness of Mobile
Health Technology for Adherence and Engagement with
Home Therapy Programmes |
| title_sort | apps for children with disabilities: effectiveness of mobile
health technology for adherence and engagement with
home therapy programmes |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95427 |