Finger Tapping Measures for Parkinson's Disease: Preliminary Evaluation of an Android Application for Data Collection in Australia

Title
Finger Tapping Measures for Parkinson's Disease: Preliminary Evaluation of an Android Application for Data Collection in Australia
Publication Date
2021
Author(s)
Suominen, Hanna
Manocha, Mehika
Desborough, Jane
Parkinson, Anne
Apthorp, Deborah
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5785-024X
Email: dapthorp@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:dapthorp
Editor
Editor(s): Michelle Honey, Charlene Ronquillo, Ting-Ting Lee and Lucy Westbrooke
Abstract
Paper presented by Hanna Suominen
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
IOS Press
Place of publication
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Series
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
DOI
10.3233/SHTI210775
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/52934
Abstract

Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a progressive chronic disorder with a high misdiagnosis rate. Because finger-tapping tasks correlate with its fine-motor symptoms, they could be used to help diagnose and assess PD. We first designed and developed an Android application to perform finger-tapping tasks without trained supervision, which is not always feasible for patients. Then, we conducted a preliminary user evaluation in Australia with six patients clinically diagnosed with PD and sixteen controls without PD. The application could be used in research and healthcare for regular symptom and progression assessment and feedback.

Link
Citation
Nurses and Midwives in the Digital Age, p. 475-480
ISBN
9781643682211
9781643682204
Pubmed ID
34920574
Start page
475
End page
480
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Files:

NameSizeformatDescriptionLink