A Self-Care Android Application

A Self-Care Android Application
Currently, most of senior citizens in the world have hypertension and the number of patients tend to increase every year because senior citizens do not know how to take care of themselves. They do not know how often and when the best time to measure blood pressure. In order to guide senior citizens with hypertension to take care of themselves, oHealth, a self-care android application, was proposed. By using oHealth application connected with blood pressure device, senior citizens can measure and monitor their blood pressure daily at home anytime. In each day, they can also record about medicines and food intake and exercise for treatment. All records are kept in azure SQL database. Moreover, this application also provides user interface design that is suit for senior citizens. oHealth application has six main functions which are manage profile, measure blood pressure, provide knowledge, record treatment, provide reminders, and perform data analysis by using multi class logistic regression method in azure machine learning. The ultimate goal of o Health application is to assist senior citizens to prevent, evaluate, and treat hypertension, and to help them control medicine, food, and exercise to treat hypertension in an appropriate way

At present, the number of senior citizens in the world tends to increase every year. As reported by the World Bank the number of senior citizens in the world is around 0.5 billion people or 8.2% and around 74.3% of them have hypertension [1]. In the same way, the number of Thai senior citizens tends to increase. According to the National Statistical Office, the number of senior citizens in Thailand is around 10 million people or 14.9% [2]. The number of senior citizens shows that Thailand’s society will become a senior’s society soon. From the information of Thai Health Promotion Foundation, senior citizens in Thailand is around 4.1 million people or 41.0% who have high blood pressure or hypertension [3]. High blood pressure is the most common risk factor to other diseases such as stroke, kidney disease, paralysis, and so on. Therefore, high blood pressure is a very important disease that needs to be treated. Nowadays, there are many medical devices that can use to monitor people health in ever day life such as heart rate monitor, glucose monitor, blood pressure monitor, pedometer and weighing scale. Blood pressure monitors are also now available to use anywhere. Accordingly, senior citizens can use these devices to measure blood pressure at home.The hypertension patient should measure the blood pressure and take care oneself at home that is the best way to measure blood pressure [4] [5]. Moreover, most of people do not know the factors that impact the value of blood pressure such as body mass index (BMI), eating too much sodium, eating too less potassium, alcohol addiction, smoking, lack of physical activities, stress and taking the medicine according to the doctor. Thus, they should know more the basic knowledge of hypertension. In 2016, smartphone owner in Thailand is about 24 million people and about 2.5% of them are senior citizens [6]. Recently, Thai people are increasingly interested in self-care but most user interface of self-care applications are not friendly for senior citizens e.g. small text, small button [7]. The main objective of this research work is to design and develop a self-care android application for senior citizens with hypertension to guide, track and treat hypertension and to reduce the risk of having other incurrent diseases. Hence, this oHealth application will be a useful tool for senior citizens with hypertension to take care of themselves.https://codeshoppy.in/

A Self-Care Android Application 
Our research project intends to introduce the concept of self-care for senior citizens with hypertension by developing an android application that users can prevent, evaluate and treat hypertension. oHealth let users know their blood pressure, exercise hour and sodium intake in each day, medicine intake, hypertension levels and learned to aware or adopt the healthy life style. oHealth could support users to treat hypertension in an appropriate way and measure blood pressureanywhere and anytime especially at home to get the accurately outcome. Moreover, it can give more knowledge about hypertension to users. In thefuture work, to be more useful, oHealth should be extended to connect to other medical devices such as heart rate monitor, glucose monitor, weighing scale and pedometer.

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