Development and evaluation of a web-based cognitive task generator for personalized cognitive training: a proof of concept study with stroke patients.
-
Development and evaluation of a web-based cognitive task generator for personalized cognitive training: a proof of concept study with stroke patients.
Author: Faria, A. L., Pinho, M. S., & Badia, S. B. i.
Published in: JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies, 5(2), e10714.Abstract
Cognitive impairments impose important limitations in the
performance of activities of daily living. Although there is
important evidence on cognitive rehabilitation benefits, its
implementation is limited due to time and human resources
demands. Moreover, many cognitive rehabilitation interventions
lack a solid theoretical framework in the selection of paper-and-pencil
tasks by the clinicians. In this endeavor, it would be useful
to have a tool that could generate standardized paper-and-pencil
tasks, parameterized according to patients’ needs. In this paper,
we combine the advantages of information and communication
technologies with a participatory design approach with 20 health
professionals to develop a novel cognitive rehabilitation web-tool:
the NeuroRehabLab Task Generator (NTG). The NTG is a free
and online available tool that systematically addresses multiple
cognitive domains, and easily generates highly personalized
paper-and-pencil training tasks. A field evaluation of the NTG
with ten stroke patients showed moderate and strong correlations
of patients’ task performance with their cognitive assessment in
multiple cognitive domains. That is, corroborating its usefulness
both as an assessment and as rehabilitation tool.Full article available here