Development of an automated braille medication box for visually impaired people with chronic diseases
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Introduction: Visually impaired people with chronic diseases face problems in taking medications. The automatic braille pill box is practical for safe storage and improving self-organization of pills for effective treatment.
Objective: To develop an automatic braille pill box, evaluate its effectiveness, and study the behavior of visually impaired people in taking medications.
Methods: The research and development model was conducted in 3 phases. Phase 1 studied the current condition of medication use by visually impaired people with chronic diseases and developed innovations that consisted of two steps, including studying the need for medication boxes and guidelines for the design of an automated medicine box based on an evidence-based research. Phase 2 involved developing a model for an automated medicine box. This phase consisted of five steps, including determining the components, designing a prototype, testing the prototype, evaluating and improving the prototype, and having experts evaluate the prototype. Phase 3 was for testing the efficiency of the automated pill box on eighty specifically selected people. Forty visually impaired people with chronic diseases and forty health volunteers and caregivers. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data.
Results: After the trial, the automated pill box for the visually impaired was ready for use. The visually impaired people's effectiveness and drug-taking behavior were at a high level (M=4.03, SD=0.77).
It was found that satisfaction with the automated pill boxes was at a high level (M=3.70, SD=0.65).
Conclusion: The automated pill box helps to prevent harm from taking medications and helps to closely monitor medication use. Visually impaired people with chronic diseases were safe and satisfied when taking medication and had better medication use behaviors.
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