The Development of Traditional Thai Massage Chatbot Application for Hypertension Treatment

Abstract

Hypertension is one of the significant health problems from chronic health conditions, which may cause serious health issues and sudden death. Thai massage or Nuad Thai, which is a Thai traditional healing practice and a well-known therapy, can be applied as a treatment for some chronic health conditions. There are various Thai massage courses available for people who are interested, but the problems of participation schedules, massage therapy techniques, and how to practice it correctly are difficult for non-experts to follow and improve the knowledge and skills by themselves. Thus, we would like to develop computer instructional lessons of Thai massage for high blood pressure treatment by giving basic information through a media service or an application, which is a chatbot application. Then, we evaluated the quality of graphics and video content as well as the chatbot application using an online survey. The results showed that the media was easy to follow and understandable. The users mentioned that after they used the chatbot application and saw the Thai massage video clips, they were able to perform the massage by themselves.