MOBILE PHONE APP-BASED COMMUNITY HEALTH EDUCATION IMPROVES QUALITY OF LIFE FOR MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT PATIENTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY IN A COMMUNITY SETTING

Homood Alharbi, Abdulrahman Saeed Alshehry, Mohammad Ahmad^*

Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, College of Nursing; King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Background: The Community Health Education (CHE) offered to senior patients suffering from Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) proved to enhance their lifestyle, QOL, and cognitive status with good application values. For stroke patients in the community, the mobile phone App-based continuing nursing care is a boon when it comes to State Examination (SE), quality of life, and satisfaction toward nursing and enhancing different physiological indicators inclusive of Motor Functions (MF).

Methods: The study recruited patients from the community suffering from mild cognitive impairment in order to assess the mobile phone app-based community health education to prolong the nursing care mode. The patients who belong to the Observation Group (OG) made use of smartphone app to receive Community Health Education (CHE). 

Results: A low value of KAP was reported after three months of intervention in the OG group when compared to Control Group (CG) (P < 0.05). Further, high results were achieved for other indexes, too, such as Cognitive Function (CF) scores after 1, 2, and 3 months of intervention (P < 0.05) in addition to physiology, psychology, social relations, and environment scores after 3 months of intervention (P < 0.05). In the case of OG, 87.50% was the rate of qualified living style, while in the case of CG, the rate was 69.23%  (X2 = 3.903, P = 0.048). 

Conclusion: The study observed high State Examination (SE) scores among OG patients compared to CG. The OG patients scored higher in terms of emotional health, social function, physiological functions, and physiological features compared to CG during post-intervention assessment. Mobile phone app-based continuing nursing care considerably enhances the Quality of Life efficiently among mild cognitive impairment patients.