Open AccessFeasibility and validation of a web-based platform for the self-administered patient collection of demographics, health status, anxiety, depression, and cognition in community dwelling elderly
Author(s) -
Matthew Calamia,
Daniel S. Weitzner,
Alyssa N. De Vito,
John Bernstein,
Raymond B. Allen,
Jeffrey N. Keller
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
plos one
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99
H-Index - 332
ISSN - 1932-6203
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pone.0244962
Subject(s) - anxiety , cognition , depression (economics) , demographics , clinical psychology , medicine , disease , mental health , gerontology , psychiatry , psychology , pathology , demography , sociology , economics , macroeconomics
The coronavirus disease pandemic has brought a new urgency for the development and deployment of web-based applications which complement, and offer alternatives to, traditional one-on-one consultations and pencil-and-paper (PaP) based assessments that currently dominate clinical research. We have recently developed a web-based application that can be used for the self-administered collection of patient demographics, self-rated health, depression and anxiety, and cognition as part of a single platform. In this study we report the findings from a study with 155 cognitively healthy older adults who received established PaP versions, as well as our novel computerized measures of self-rated health, depression and anxiety, and cognition. Moderate to high correlations were observed between PaP and web- based measures of self-rated health ( r = 0.77), depression and anxiety ( r = 0.72), and preclinical Alzheimer’s disease cognitive composite (PACC) ( r = .61). Test-retest correlations were variable with high correlations for a measure of processing speed and a measure of delayed episodic memory. Taken together, these data support the feasibility and validity of utilization of this novel web-based platform as a new alternative for collecting patient demographics and the assessment of self-rated health, depression and anxiety, and cognition in the elderly.