Victor Mukonka, Cephas Sialubanje, Fionnuala M McAuliffe, Olusegun Babaniyi, Sarai Malumo, Joseph Phiri, Patricia Fitzpatrick
Effect of a mother-baby delivery pack on institutional deliveries: A community intervention trial to address maternal mortality in rural Zambia
PloS one
relationship independent living activities daily living care teams spend significant time managing assisted living residents toileting problems recently trueloo developed connected toilet seat automatically log monitor toileting sessions study aimed demonstrate validity trueloo 1 record identify toileting sessions regard stool urine events 2 compare results personreported standardofcare methods 3 establish metrics user acceptability ease use assisted living facility population used two phases 1 initial development trueloo algorithms accurately identify urine stool events 2 evaluation algorithms personreported standardofcare methods commonly used assisted living facilities phase 2 analyzed data 3day period 52 devices participants age ranged 63 101 mean 84 sd 935 years acceptability easeofuse data also collected regarding development trueloo algorithm urine assessment sensitivity specificity 96 85 observed evaluating goldstandard labeled data set respectively f1score095 stool sensitivity specificity 90 79 observed respectively f1score085 regarding trueloo algorithm assisted living settings classification performance statistics urine assessment revealed sensitivity specificity 84 94 respectively f1score090 stool 92 98 respectively f1score091 throughout study 46 personreported instances urine documented compared 630 recorded trueloo stool events 116 personreported events reported compared 153 trueloo indicates personreported events captured 7 46630 time urine 76 116153 time stool overall 45 3271 participants said new toilet seat better previous one 84 6071 reported using trueloo easy 99 6971 said believed system could help aging adults 98 6971 participants reported would find alerts related health valuable would willing share information doctor asked sharing information caregivers 66 4671 reported would prefer trueloo send information alerts caregiver opposed participant personally communicate details trueloo accurately recorded toileting sessions compared standardofcare methods successfully establishing metrics user acceptability ease use assisted living populations additional validation studies warranted data presented paper support use trueloo assisted living settings model event monitoring toileting