IVRS for Self Care
These days clinicians after conducting successful treatment instead of writing it on paper diaries turn it to computers using electronic data capture techniques. This electronic data is later on used to make computer program to treat patients on their own using these programs. Access to these programs is given to patient through IVRS/IVR system. Patient can call on a specific numbers and can be guided like a nurse through IVRS.
IVRS/IVR systems or Interactive Voice Response System is a technology in which someone uses a touch-tone telephone to interact with a database to gather information from or enter data into the database. IVR technology does not require human interaction over the telephone as the user's interaction with the database is predetermined by what the IVR system will allow the user access.
IVRS/IVR educates patients like a nurse could directs and guide them. IVRS helps patients learn important information about specific disorders and available treatments. It improves patient understanding and satisfaction with treatment, presumably because the patients become enlightened participants in decisions about their health care.
These automated messages on IVRS/IVR are immensely helpful, as patient get deeply involved in their treatment. They got to understand the know-how of the their treatment proceedings and becomes enlightened participant in decision becoming in their cure. After comprehending the state of their disease they proceed with self-help treatment. When they call on a particular IVRS number through the automatic questionnaire they can identify the symptoms and eventually the problems they are suffering from. It helps them diagnose their disease and then monitored them to proceed with the treatment.
Not just education, now clinical research organizations also prefer to provide therapies through IVRS. This is very successful and helpful in counseling based treatments like schizophrenia, depression, phobias, disorders etc. Patients through auto generated questions and solutions, can easily spot where they are going wrong. Subsequent to self-detection they can prepare a chart of areas to be improved and worked upon. Even this could be achieved with the help of IVRS/IVR systems.
Current IVRS therapy programs tend to stress on disorders for which self-help is integral to treatment success. They lead patients to the areas where they need self-help. It is almost similar to patient taking help from books. It stands more effective as here chance to break multiple meanings is negligible as message is conveyed in simple and easy to understand context. An effective self-help program guide users through an assessment of whether they should seek professional help rather than continue on their own.
After being connected to IVRS/IVR System describe their rituals, estimate the monetary and time costs of having the disorder, and identify triggers of their obsessions, discomfort, and rituals. Hence forth, through IVRS they gain knowledge about the disorder and factors affecting quality of life and medication treatments available.
