Promoting ICT's on severe mental disorders patients.

Abstract

Objective: The generalization that is making society of information and communication technologies (ICTs), is changing the way to establish social, laboral, and economical relations. So, promote the use of ICT in people with severe mental disorder (SMD) will favor their social inclusion. The use that they make will depend by individual characteristics such as, literacy level or the chronicity of the disorder. (Mateu-Mateu, J. Mª., y Navarro Gómez, N., 2015). Therefore, the aim of the study is to promote the use of ICTs in psychosocial rehabilitation on SMD patients. For it, it was proposed the use of an authoring tool application, called TinyTap, to facilitate knowledge adquiring and functionality towards ICTs of patients, as well as; their creativity, self-esteem and security. Method: The sample consists on 6 patients (Average age = 42) diagnostic of schizophrenia. They had to show clinical stability and attend continuously the Center for Rehabilitation and Social Insertion (CRIS). It was used 9 electronic devices and the autor tool application, which allows patients design their own activities. In addition, it were created 2 qualitattive questionnaires and the attendance and the number of questions during games design were recorded. Results and conclusions: The totality of the experimental study consisted of 43 one hour sessions. In first place, it was obtained the development of the application manual to facilitate patients the understanding. In second place, the continuous assistance, the decrease of the number of questions that patients maked and the 8 games that they create, reflected the acquired learning. Finally, qualitattive questionnaires reveal that patients have perceived, that using the electronic deviced and the autor tool application have increase their creativity; teamwork skills and their ability and motivation to use new technologies in their daily life.