TY - JOUR
T1 - The Facilitators and Barriers to Digital Health for Managing Nutrition in People With Parkinson's Disease and Their Caregivers
T2 - A Formative, Qualitative Study
AU - LoBuono, Dara Lyn
AU - Shea, Kyla S.
AU - Reed, Megan
AU - Tovar, Alison
AU - Leedahl, Skye N.
AU - Xu, Furong
AU - Mahler, Leslie
AU - Lofgren, Ingrid E.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was internally funded by the University of Rhode Island's Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences . The authors would like to thank the study participants and undergraduate research assistants for their support of this project.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior
PY - 2023/8
Y1 - 2023/8
N2 - Objective: Identify techniques to assist in designing digital health platforms for nutrition services for people with Parkinson's disease and caregivers to improve their quality of life. Design: Semistructured, dyadic interviews with 20 dyads (20 people with Parkinson's disease and 20 caregivers). Setting: Home visits were conducted in the northeast US. Participants: People with Parkinson's disease and their caregivers were recruited via email, flyers, news articles and announcements at support groups. Phenomenon of Interest: Identification of facilitators and barriers to using digital health platforms to inform future digital nutrition services. Analysis: Interviews were recorded, transcribed and double-coded using a framework analysis method. Results: Reported digital health platforms utilization facilitators were: knowledge acquisition, convenience, intention to use, socializing, enjoyment, and forced adoption. Barriers included: negative feelings toward technology, lack of access or knowledge, disinterest, product design, frustration and functional reliability, and applying health information. Conclusions and Implications: Although dyads often lack knowledge on both how to use technology and nutrition, they are willing to use digital health platforms to increase their nutrition knowledge if platforms are convenient. Based on the identified facilitators and barriers, the added benefits of access and training nutrition digital health platforms must be clearly communicated to end-users to improve their quality of life.
AB - Objective: Identify techniques to assist in designing digital health platforms for nutrition services for people with Parkinson's disease and caregivers to improve their quality of life. Design: Semistructured, dyadic interviews with 20 dyads (20 people with Parkinson's disease and 20 caregivers). Setting: Home visits were conducted in the northeast US. Participants: People with Parkinson's disease and their caregivers were recruited via email, flyers, news articles and announcements at support groups. Phenomenon of Interest: Identification of facilitators and barriers to using digital health platforms to inform future digital nutrition services. Analysis: Interviews were recorded, transcribed and double-coded using a framework analysis method. Results: Reported digital health platforms utilization facilitators were: knowledge acquisition, convenience, intention to use, socializing, enjoyment, and forced adoption. Barriers included: negative feelings toward technology, lack of access or knowledge, disinterest, product design, frustration and functional reliability, and applying health information. Conclusions and Implications: Although dyads often lack knowledge on both how to use technology and nutrition, they are willing to use digital health platforms to increase their nutrition knowledge if platforms are convenient. Based on the identified facilitators and barriers, the added benefits of access and training nutrition digital health platforms must be clearly communicated to end-users to improve their quality of life.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jneb.2023.05.252
DO - 10.1016/j.jneb.2023.05.252
M3 - Article
C2 - 37562920
AN - SCOPUS:85165620835
SN - 1499-4046
VL - 55
SP - 553
EP - 563
JO - Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
JF - Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
IS - 8
ER -