A Multi-step Usability Evaluation of a Self-Management App to Support Medication Adherence in Persons Living with HIV.
Purpose: Adherence to antiretroviral therapy is essential to HIV management and sustaining viral suppression. Despite simplified regimens, adherence remains difficult for certain persons living with HIV (PLWH). There is evidence to support the use of mHealth apps for effective self-management in PLW...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Medical Informatics Vol. 122; pp. 37 - 45 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Feb2019
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=133974050&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 133974050 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 13865056 JR4 jtl: International Journal of Medical Informatics issn: 13865056 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2019 vid: 122 pid: 467 pub: Elsevier B.V. place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 133974050 133974050 NLM30623782 133974050 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2018.11.012 NLM30623782 133974050 ppf: 37 ppct: 8 formats: tig: atl: A Multi-step Usability Evaluation of a Self-Management App to Support Medication Adherence in Persons Living with HIV. aug: au: Beauchemin, Melissa Gradilla, Melissa Baik, Dawon Cho, Hwayoung Schnall, Rebecca affil: School of Nursing, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10032, United States sug: subj: HIV Infections Drug Therapy Telemedicine Statistics and Numerical Data Mobile Applications Human Immunodeficiency Virus Drug Effects Medication Compliance Female Aged Human Male Middle Age Adult Validation Studies Comparative Studies Evaluation Research Multicenter Studies Aged: 65+ years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Adult: 19-44 years Female Male ab: Purpose: Adherence to antiretroviral therapy is essential to HIV management and sustaining viral suppression. Despite simplified regimens, adherence remains difficult for certain persons living with HIV (PLWH). There is evidence to support the use of mHealth apps for effective self-management in PLWH; however, a medication adherence app with real-time monitoring for this population has not been developed and rigorously evaluated by PLWH. We developed a mHealth app (WiseApp) for HIV self-management to help PLWH self-manage their health. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usability of the WiseApp.Methods: We conducted a three-step usability evaluation using 1) a traditional think-aloud protocol with end-users, 2) a heuristic evaluation with experts in informatics, and 3) a cognitive walkthrough with end-users. During the cognitive walkthrough, we tested two devices (fitness tracker and medication tracking bottle) that were linked to the WiseApp.Results: The think-aloud protocol informed iterative updates to the app, specifically to make it easier to see different sections of the app. The heuristic evaluation confirmed the necessity of these design changes. The cognitive walkthrough informed additional updates and confirmed that overall, the app and the linked devices were usable for the end-users.Conclusion: The results of the cognitive walkthrough with both experts and end-users informed iterative refinements to the WiseApp and finalization of a mHealth app for PLWH to better self-manage their health. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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