Nowadays, it's common for kids of all ages to carry smartphones, so two doctors from Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, came up with a way to take advantage of this by creating an app that helps children remember to take their asthma medication.
According to WBNS-10TV, the app requires users to input their medications and triggers and then shows them what their status is. If the app has determined that a user needs to take his or her medication, it will send an alert.
"If they start to have symptoms they can input symptoms into the app, the app will activate their personal asthma action plan, guide them through treatment, tell them what to do next," Dr. David Stukus, one of the creators of the app, explained to the source.
Dr. Stukus and his colleague, Dr. Nabeel Farooqui, tested the app on a group of 20 patients to determine its effectiveness and found that 80 percent of the children who participated interacted with the app multiple times throughout the day.
"Before I slacked – took [my medication] maybe once in an evening another day in the morning," explained 15-year-old Austin Leffel, adding that the app helped to ensure that he took his medication as needed.
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