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The Impact of Mobile Phone Reminders on Perceived Self-Care Levels of Informal Caregivers
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: Informal caregivers play a fundamental role in caring for people that need assistance and
provide an effective service in managing their loved ones’ health. Because of this, they have little time
to attend to themselves and perform self-care practices. Some of these practices can improve mental
health. By snowball sampling, we recruited 15 informal caregivers, 12 females and three males. Using
the Wilcoxon signed-rank test, we analyzed the impact of the reminders on a self-care scale. We used
the Mindful Self-Care Scale, comparing the same population without reminders and with reminders.
Results indicated that total self-care scores with reminders increased statistically significantly, T = 13,
Z = −2.481, p ≤ 0.013, with a large effect size (r = 0.64). This study shows a significant self-care
increase in informal caregivers after using reminders. Future development of a reminders-based
approach could focus on increasing self-care and the time caregivers take for themselves, empowering
them to take a more active role in meeting their own needs.
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Informal caregivers Self-care Reminders Human-computer interaction . Faculdade de Ciências Sociais Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia
Citation
Peres, B.; Gouveia, É.R.; Campos, P.F. The Impact of Mobile Phone Reminders on Perceived Self-Care Levels of Informal Caregivers. Informatics 2022, 9, 59. https://doi.org/10.3390/ informatics9030059
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MDPI