SuperAssist: Supervision of Patient Self-Care and Medical Adherence

Due to significant aging trends in coming decades, health care service in western countries is no longer able to satisfy the national care needs. Patients are increasingly expected to perform Self-Care, facing them with severe medical adherence problems. We are exploring the possibilities of personal virtual assistants in the supervision of Self-Care. Because this is ethically complicated, we first observed healthy participants caring for an online patient. We took into account the level of commitment and participation in the development of the care plan. Additionally, we looked at the participants’ personal profile. Analysis did not show a significant effect of level of commitment and participation on the performance of care and level of medical adherence. The participants did express a strong preference for a cooperative supervision condition in which they were involved in the scheduling of the care tasks and able to manage the care plan. The results offered good footing to progress in our development of supervision of patient’s Self-Care.