ePartners4All: a (personalised and) blended care solution with virtual buddy for child health
A needs assessment, ePartners4All development, and pilot study will be performed in co-creation with end-users
E-Health solutions may be effective for health promotion in children, but often reach only a part of the target group. Our objective is to create equal opportunities for all children through ePartners4All; a personalized blended care solution. We will develop and evaluate the ePartner4All system in co-creation with end-users.
There is a large challenge to advance the physical and mental health of children, especially in groups with low economic status and children with special needs or specific health problems. Approximately 145 000 children in the Netherlands have disabilities in communicative and social-emotional skills. There is a workforce shortage of physicians, nurses and teachers. Schools have a tight school curriculum with very limited space for additional support to children. There is hardly any sharing of information between schools and preventive youth healthcare services, and limited availability and fragmentation of personalized interventions.
In this project we take digital support of school-aged children and their caregivers a big leap forward, by not only monitoring their health, but also providing interactive e-health solutions (so-called ePartners), including robot buddies and virtual agents that enhance children’s health and well-being. These ePartners can help to prevent health problems in at-risk children, and it can help to recognize and treat health problems at an early-stage, thereby preventing deterioration of the problem. In this way, ePartners4All can help to create a more resilient society. Altogether, it could lead to lower healthcare utilization and, in the long-run, a more resilient workforce with lower losses of productivity.
Results from the needs assessment with teachers, children and parents were used as input for the development of the e-health intervention ePartners4All. Two pilot studies were conducted, using a robot in school settings to provide an intervention aimed at promoting child wellbeing. Evaluation feedback from both teachers and children highlight the potential for future implementation. However, the feedback also demonstrates that it is essential to address several identified barriers in practical and technical areas to realize this potential.
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