TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wetzel, Britta
A1  - Pryss, Rüdiger
A1  - Baumeister, Harald
A1  - Edler, Johanna-Sophie
A1  - Gonçalves, Ana Sofia Oliveira
A1  - Cohrdes, Caroline
T1  - “How come you don’t call me?” Smartphone communication app usage as an indicator of loneliness and social well-being across the adult lifespan during the COVID-19 pandemic
JF  - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
N2  - Loneliness and lack of social well-being are associated with adverse health outcomes and have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Smartphone communication data have been suggested to help monitor loneliness, but this requires further evidence. We investigated the informative value of smartphone communication app data for predicting subjective loneliness and social well-being in a sample of 364 participants ranging from 18 to 78 years of age (52.2% female; mean age = 42.54, SD = 13.22) derived from the CORONA HEALTH APP study from July to December 2020 in Germany. The participants experienced relatively high levels of loneliness and low social well-being during the time period characterized by the COVID-19 pandemic. Apart from positive associations with phone call use times, smartphone communication app use was associated with social well-being and loneliness only when considering the age of participants. Younger participants with higher use times tended to report less social well-being and higher loneliness, while the opposite association was found for older adults. Thus, the informative value of smartphone communication use time was rather small and became evident only in consideration of age. The results highlight the need for further investigations and the need to address several limitations in order to draw conclusions at the population level.
KW  - loneliness
KW  - social well-being
KW  - passive data
KW  - app
KW  - smartphone communication
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - social media use
KW  - age differences
KW  - public mental health
KW  - mental health monitoring
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-241033
SN  - 1660-4601
VL  - 18
IS  - 12
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Müller, Frank
A1  - Chandra, Shivani
A1  - Furaijat, Ghefar
A1  - Kruse, Stefan
A1  - Waligorski, Alexandra
A1  - Simmenroth, Anne
A1  - Kleinert, Evelyn
T1  - A digital communication assistance tool (DCAT) to obtain medical history from foreign-language patients: development and pilot testing in a primary health care center for refugees
JF  - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
N2  - Background: Language barriers play a critical role in the treatment of migrant and refugee patients. In Germany, primary care interpreters are often not available especially in rural areas or if patients demand spontaneous or urgent consultations. Methods: In order to enable patients and their physicians to communicate effectively about the current illness history, we developed a digital communication assistance tool (DCAT) for 19 different languages and dialects. This paper reports the multidisciplinary process of the conceptual design and the iterative development of this cross-cultural user-centered application in an action-oriented approach. Results: We piloted our app with 36 refugee patients prior to a clinical study and used the results for further development. The acceptance and usability of the app by patients was high. Conclusion: Using digital tools for overcoming language barriers can be a feasible approach when providing health care to foreign-language patients.
KW  - language barriers
KW  - app
KW  - interpreter
KW  - primary care
KW  - medical history taking
KW  - refugee
KW  - culturally and linguistically diverse patients
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-200640
SN  - 1660-4601
VL  - 17
IS  - 4
ER  -