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“Famcare: Mobile Application on Palliative Care for Filipino Caregiversâ€

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  • Winifredo Licop

    (Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing Education, Olivarez College Tagaytay, Philippines)

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Caregiver at the palliative care not only benefits the client, but also the health care system, and they should have access to high-quality, evidencebased interventions. Moreover, Health care faces several challenges, such as funding limitations, large geographic distances that make such resources often more costly for rural patients. t is a general premise that information technology (IT) can address these challenges and enhance home health care services. The main objective of this study is to develop a mobile app on palliative care in the android operating system for Filipino Caregivers. The researcher utilized the ADDIE framework or known as Analysis- Design- Develop, Implement, and evaluate to develop the mobile application: The mobile application has the following features 1. With backward compatibility that can run with the minimum android OS of Ice cream sandwich 2. Palliative Care Awareness and Education. 3. List of Palliative care facilities and HIV treatment 4. With mobile utility medication manager, contact list, vital signs record, record manager, pain assessment. Two pilot test was done with the Caregiver end-user with a weighted mean of 3.73 or excellent and with the technical expert in IT with the weighted mean of 3.85 or excellent. The study recommended testing the effectiveness of the mobile app, translate to Filipino dialect, and enhance the feature, aesthetics of the mobile application.

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  • Winifredo Licop, 2025. "“Famcare: Mobile Application on Palliative Care for Filipino Caregiversâ€," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 9(1), pages 1684-1706, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bcp:journl:v:9:y:2025:i:1:p:1684-1706
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