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Using the Butler e-health platform increases elderly users' positive emotions and decreases negative ones

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Evidence · 1 study · design r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2011 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? After using the Butler system, elderly participants' positive emotions increased and their negative ones decreased, as measured before and after platform use with visual analogical scales analyzed by MANOVAs. → Etchemendy 2011

Evidence

Etchemendy 2011

Etchemendy, E.; Baños, RM.; Botella, C.; Castilla López, DV.; Alcañiz Raya, ML.; Rasal, P.; Farfallini, L. (2011). An e-health platform for the elderly population: The butler system. Computers and Education. 56(1):275-279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2010.07.022

q2 · i? · design · r2

A pre-post assessment of the Butler platform with elderly users: mood measures were "assessed through visual analogical scales before and after the platform use" and analyzed with MANOVAs. The abstract reports that after use "the participants' insensitive emotions increased and their negative ones decreased"; no effect size is printed, so impact is not coded.

"These measures were assessed through visual analogical scales before and after the platform use, with the outcome measures MANOVAS analyses were performed."

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type claim
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title Using the Butler e-health platform increases elderly users' positive emotions and decreases negative ones
description Using the Butler e-health platform increases elderly users' positive emotions and decreases negative ones
status review
evidence_strength weak
newest_evidence 2011
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