132831 20260217205459.0 doi 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2024.105378 sideral 137744 ART-2024-137744 eng Palacios-Navarro, Guillermo Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-9408-1280 Effects of a home care community-dwelling intervention on cognition, mental health, loneliness and quality of life in elder people: The VERA study 2024 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Background New technologies can provide practical solutions that respond to the needs of the elderly, improving their quality of life and well-being. The aim of this research was to validate a multimodal approach based on a video call system, by comparing the scores of different clinically validated tests at baseline and at the end of the intervention. Methods A longitudinal study was conducted with 7 healthy participants aged 61 to 92 years over a 6-month period. To measure the effectiveness of the intervention, five variables were assessed: cognitive impairment, quality of life, general health, perceived loneliness, and depression. The following inventories were used as instruments to measure the aforementioned variables at baseline, mid intervention and after intervention: MEC-35 scale, Fototest, FUMAT scale, WHOQOL-BREF scale, Yesavage Geriatric Depression Scale, the Spanish adaptation of the Hamilton Scale, the revised ESTE scale and the Goldberg's GHQ28 Mental Health scale. Result The obtained results confirmed our hypothesis and the participants showed significant improvements after intervention in all the assessed domains except the cognitive domain, as expected. Results in FUMAT, WHOQOL-BREF, Yesavage Geriatric Depression, revised ESTE and the Goldberg's GHQ28 Mental Health scales were statistically significant (p < 0.05) and the effect sizes were large after intervention compare to baseline. Conclusions We have shown that the intervention has been effective in providing the participants with psychological and social benefits in the variables of quality of life, general health, perceived loneliness and depression. The high clinical relevance achieved from the results obtained makes the system a very suitable tool to promote the independence and well-being of people who receive community-dwelling home care. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S69-23R info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es 4.1 2024 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES 26 / 188 = 0.138 2024 Q1 T1 MEDICAL INFORMATICS 16 / 48 = 0.333 2024 Q2 T2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS 77 / 258 = 0.298 2024 Q2 T1 1.189 2024 Health Informatics 2024 Q1 7.9 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Santamaría, Rebeca del Río, David Ramos, Pedro Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-9508-7078 Gascón-Santos, Santiago Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-3723-0673 5008 785 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ingeniería Electrón.Com. Área Tecnología Electrónica 5008 800 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ingeniería Electrón.Com. Área Teoría Señal y Comunicac. 4009 680 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Psicología y Sociología Área Person.Eval.Trat.Psicoló. 185 (2024), 105378 [7 pp.] Int. J. Med. Inform. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INFORMATICS 1386-5056 3261703 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/132831/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2393430 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/132831/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:132831 articulos driver 2026-02-17-20:21:31 ARTICLE