Deans' stroke musings: MindSurf: A pilot study to assess the usability and acceptability of a smartphone app designed to promote contentment, wellbeing, and goal achievement

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

MindSurf: A pilot study to assess the usability and acceptability of a smartphone app designed to promote contentment, wellbeing, and goal achievement

You need contentment, wellbeing, and goal achievement. What protocols does your doctor have for these needs? ANYTHING AT ALL? Big Whoopee, trying to make you feel better rather than actually address the underlying causes of your lack of contentment, wellbeing, and goal achievement
https://www.mdlinx.com/family-medicine/medical-news-article/2016/12/13/mental-health-smartphone-app/6979222/?

BMC Psychiatry, 12/13/2016

Carey TA, et al. – A pilot study was conducted to survey the usability and acceptability of receiving Method of Levels (MOL)–style questions via intermittent daily text messages. The findings demonstrate that MindSurf will be a usable and acceptable app.

Methods

A pilot study utilizing quantitative as well as qualitative methods and incorporating a repeated measures, A-B design was directed.

Results

The 23 members were healthy adult volunteers who were all either undergraduate students, postgraduate students, or staff of the University of Manchester.
They got MOL-style questions on their mobile phones over a 1-week period.
Qualitative outcomes were encouraging and demonstrated that the format and style of questioning were acceptable to participants and did not lead to increased worry or concern.
A one-way, repeated measures ANOVA demonstrated that there was a nonsignificant decrease in scores on the 21-item Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS21) over a 2 week period.

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