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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Main Author: Johnson, Rowan Winston
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2024
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95427
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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