Table 1.
Study inclusion criteria
Category | Criteria |
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Study population | Adults (≥18 years old) living in nursing homes |
Language | English and Chinese |
Intervention/health solution | Technology-based interventions (e.g., digital tools such as smartphones and tablets, sensor devices, internet-based programs) |
Key variable | Detailed descriptions of the technology-based interventions (i.e., purpose of the intervention (to evaluate the aims of existing interventions), use of technology (to examine how different types of technologies have been applied among nursing home residents), application of the interventions (to investigate the degree to which the interventions have involved nursing home residents in the adoption/application of technologies), intervention exposure (to study how different interventions have been used among nursing home residents), outcome variables assessed/measured (to evaluate the quantifiable outcomes of technology-based interventions), and weather the design of the intervention material is tailored to nursing home residents (to examine to degree to which the design technology-based interventions has taken the unique attributes of nursing home residents into consideration) |
Study type | Original research (i.e., research that reports original and empirical research findings) |
Study design | Randomized controlled trials |
Study outcome | Empirical reporting of the effect of the intervention (i.e., qualitative designs excluded) |