title: An e-health system for the elderly (Butler Project): a pilot study on acceptance and satisfaction.
abstract: The Butler Project is a technological e-health platform that uses the Internet to connect various users; it was designed to deliver health care to the elderly. The Butler platform has three levels of implementation: diagnosis (mood monitoring, alert system, management reports), therapy (training in inducing positive moods, memory work), and entertainment (e-mail, chat, video, photo albums, music, friend forums, accessibility to the Internet). The objective of this work is to describe the psychological aspects of the platform and to present data obtained from four users. Results show that after using the system, the participants increased their positive emotions and decreased their negative ones; in addition, they obtained high levels of satisfaction and experienced little difficulty in using the system.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Psicología Básica, Clínica y Psicobiología, University Jaume I, Castellón, Spain. botella@psb.uji.es
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Botella
authors.forename: Ernestina
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Etchemendy
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Castilla
authors.forename: Rosa María
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Baños
authors.forename: Azucena
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: García-Palacios
authors.forename: Soledad
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Quero
authors.forename: Mariano
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alcañiz
authors.forename: José Antonio
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Lozano
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001292:Attitude to Computers; D003197:Computer Literacy; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000639:trends*; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000523:psychology*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D012984:Software / Q000639:trends; D013030:Spain; D013686:Telemetry / Q000639:trends; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted / Q000639:trends