Feasibility 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

Authors

Matthew Calamia, Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America.
Daniel S. Weitzner, Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America.
Alyssa N. De Vito, Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America.
John P. Bernstein, Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America.
Ray Allen, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America.
Jeffrey N. Keller, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2021

Abstract

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.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

PloS one

First Page

e0244962

Recommended Citation

Calamia, M., Weitzner, D. S., De Vito, A. N., Bernstein, J. P., Allen, R., & Keller, J. N. (2021). Feasibility 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. PloS one, 16 (1), e0244962. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244962