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Evaluation on Mobile Application for Health Intervention
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems.
2022 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

With the rise of portable devices, the interest in health and medical applications(mhealth applications) has risen, and the importance of evaluating these applications is critical. The application stores on portable devices only require a good application quality and not the content. The content of the medical health applications could be harmful and need to be evaluated to decrease the potential health risks.

In this report, a new mobile health application named POSITIVE gets evaluated with the help of interviewed questionnaires and user­personas. The POSITIVE application target is the older population with their aim to maintain and improve the intrinsic capacity involving primary care and caregivers. POSITIVE application content is monitored by customized exercise programs with medical tests with associated help devices. 

The evaluation was done by creating user personas that give a user overview. User personas were designed with the help of data obtained through a interview protocol. The interview protocol was design for this specific evaluation with the help of research questionnaire tools. Questionnaire tools used for creating the interview protocol were the system usability scale(SUS), service user technology acceptability questionnaire(SUTAQ), patient activation measure(PAM), elderly information technology ability tool(EITAT), and mobile health app usability questionnaire(MAUQ)

The results show that participants with a higher level of health problems had a lower exercise activity in the application. Participants with lower health problems have a higher exercise activity. Both participants’ groups liked the application’s design and felt it motivated them. Critiques towards the application were to have better customized exercises.

Abstract [sv]

Med smarta mobila enheter växande tillgång har interesset för hälso och medicinska applikationer ökat där vikten att utvärdera dessa applikationer är mycket viktigt. Applikationsbutiker på mobila enheter har endast krav på bra kvalitet på funktioner men inte innehållet av applikationerna. Innehåll av medicinska eller hälsoapplikationer kan vara skadliga och behöver därför genomgå en utvärdering för att minska potentiella hälsorisker. 

I denna rapport kommer en ny hälsoapplikation kallad POSITIVE att presenteras samt evalueras med hjälp av intervju protokoll och user personas. POSITIVEs målgrupp är den äldre populationen där deras mål är att förebygga skörhet bland äldre genom att involvera närstående, patienten samt primärvården. Applikationen innehåller ett anpassat och övervakat träningsprogram med medicinska tester som görs medtillhörande utrustning. 

Evaluering utförs genom att skapa en ”user persona” som ger en överblick över användarna. User personan utformas med hjälp av data som erhålls genom intervju protokoll. Intervjuprotokollet är utformat med hjälp av forskade frågeformulärsverktyg. Frågeformulärsverktyg som använts till utformningen är system usability scale(SUS), service user technology acceptability questionnaire(SUTAQ), patient activation measure(PAM),eldery information technology ability tool(EITAT) och mobile health app usabilityquestionnaire(MAUQ).

Resultatet visar att deltagare med fler hälsoproblem har mindre aktivitet i applikationen. Deltagare med mindre hälsoproblem har högre aktivitet i applikationen. Båda grupperna gillade designen på applikationen som ökade deras motivation. Kritik mot applikationen är att det borde funnits bättre anpassad träningsprogram.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2022. , p. 55
Series
TRITA-CBH-GRU ; 2022:127
Keywords [en]
mhealth applications, Questionnaire, User Persona, SUS, SUTAQ, MAUQ, PAM, EITAT
Keywords [sv]
Hälsoapplikationer, frågeformulärsverktyg, User Persona, SUS, SUTAQ, MAUQ, PAM, EITAT
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Medical Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-315309OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-315309DiVA, id: diva2:1679961
Subject / course
Medical Engineering
Educational program
Master of Science - Medical Engineering
Presentation
2022-06-10, 7320, Hälsovägen 11C, Huddinge, Stockholm, 10:00 (English)
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Available from: 2022-08-09 Created: 2022-07-02 Last updated: 2024-06-18Bibliographically approved

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