Recommendations for Developing Support Tools With People Suffering From Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Co-Design and Pilot Testing of a Mobile Health Prototype.

摘要: Background: Gaps exist between developers, commissioners, and end users in terms of the perceived desirability different features functionalities mobile apps. Objective: The objective this study was to co-design a prototype app for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We present lessons learned recommendations from working on large project various stakeholders develop patients COPD. Methods: adopted user-centered, participatory approach development. Following series focus groups interviews capture requirements, we developed designed enable daily symptom recording (experience sampling). tested usability applying think aloud protocol COPD. It then released via Android store, experience sampling data event were captured gather further data. Results: A total 5 COPD participated pilot study. Identified themes include familiarity technology, appropriate levels feeding back information, issues such as manual dexterity. Moreover, 37 participants used over 4-month period (median age 47 years). symptoms most correlated well-being tiredness (r=0.61; P<.001) breathlessness (r=0.59; P<.001). Conclusions: Design implications apps need clearly labeled (rather than relying colors or symbols that require using smartphones), providing weather same terminology health care professionals simply lay terms). Target users, researchers, developers should be involved at every stage development, an iterative build app, which controlled settings well wild (ie, when deployed real-world settings) longer periods.