TY - JOUR
T1 - Wearables beyond borders
T2 - A case study of barriers to gait assessment in low-resource settings
AU - Godfrey, Alan
AU - Aranda, Clara
AU - Hussain, Azad
AU - Barreto, Marcos
AU - Rocha, Thiago
AU - Vitório, Rodrigo
N1 - Research funded by Royal Academy of Engineering (FoESF1819T621)). The Royal Society’s Newton International Fellow Alumnus grant ( (AL191004).)
PY - 2020/7/1
Y1 - 2020/7/1
N2 - Currently, there are major EU-based projects to better utilise wearables as useful diagnostic aids/tools in clinical settings as well for deployment in the home to capture ageing processes. To date, there has been little investigation of the translation of those tools beyond the geographical regions in which they were developed and implemented. Our objective was to examine pragmatic issues and challenges in the use of wearables in a diverse low-resource, middle-income country like Brazil. We found barriers to their understanding and adoption converge on three themes: (i) regional inequalities; (ii) knowledge and resources; and (iii) trust. Current large-scale projects should consider the scalability and implementation of their methods, given those themes, facilitating a stratified and global approach to healthy ageing.
AB - Currently, there are major EU-based projects to better utilise wearables as useful diagnostic aids/tools in clinical settings as well for deployment in the home to capture ageing processes. To date, there has been little investigation of the translation of those tools beyond the geographical regions in which they were developed and implemented. Our objective was to examine pragmatic issues and challenges in the use of wearables in a diverse low-resource, middle-income country like Brazil. We found barriers to their understanding and adoption converge on three themes: (i) regional inequalities; (ii) knowledge and resources; and (iii) trust. Current large-scale projects should consider the scalability and implementation of their methods, given those themes, facilitating a stratified and global approach to healthy ageing.
KW - Inertial sensors
KW - Informatics
KW - Low-resource
KW - Objective assessment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85083780521&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.maturitas.2020.04.013
DO - 10.1016/j.maturitas.2020.04.013
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85083780521
SN - 0378-5122
VL - 137
SP - 7
EP - 10
JO - Maturitas
JF - Maturitas
ER -
