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The Benefits of Digital Literacy for Psychiatric Disease through Educational Activities

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  • Ioannis Georgios Sandalis

    (Mechanical Engineering, MEd, Educator in State Education, Greece)

  • Eirini Efthymios Taskou

    (Philologist, MEd, Educator in Private Secondary School, Greece)

  • Stavroula Konstantinos Mougiou

    (Occupational Therapist, MEd, Psychiatric Hospital “Dromokaiteio”, Greece)

Abstract

Democracy, equality, and inclusion require equal opportunities for everyone to have access to all types of education, in specific to ICT content. This paper intends primarily to examine whether it is feasible to teach people with mental illness to use a tablet and secondarily whether the usage of ICT contributes to the enhancement of cognitive and social skills, to the improvement of psychology, quality of life and to the increase of the functionality of these people in the context of their psychosocial recovery. The method chosen for this study is “action research”, for the needs of which an educational activity was conducted, which had a participatory, collaborative and experiential character, in an untypical learning environment, such as that of the Psychiatric Hospital of Attica (Ps.H.A.) “Dromokaiteio”. The results of this research demonstrate both that it is possible for people with mental illness to become familiar with the use of ICT through educational courses and that the influence of ICT is especially effective in enhancing factors that affect the quality of life of people with mental disorder.

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  • Ioannis Georgios Sandalis & Eirini Efthymios Taskou & Stavroula Konstantinos Mougiou, 2023. "The Benefits of Digital Literacy for Psychiatric Disease through Educational Activities," European Journal of Engineering and Technology Research, European Open Science, pages 8-15, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:epw:ejeng0:y:2023:id:63132
    DOI: 10.24018/ejeng.2023.1.CIE.3132
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