DEVELOPMENT OF AN ASSESSMENT METHOD FOR CHRONIC DISEASE MOBILE HEALTH APPLICATIONS
Journal Title: Acta HealthMedica - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
Introduction: According to the substantial growth of mobile health applications in all aspects of health in the last decade, an mHealth app assessment has become more important for developers. On the other hand, the increasing rate of chronic diseases in all communities has encouraged the developers to develop applications for chronically ill patients. The aim of this study was to develop an assessment method for mobile health apps to fit specifically to chronic diseases mobile health apps. Methods: The methodology of this research had three steps. In the first step, the authors searched the literature for the assessment tools for chronic disease mobile applications. In the next step, the best tool for matching an application to the users’ needs, which was also adaptable to Rinke Riezebos’s scoring method, was selected. Then, in the last step of this methodology, a tool was first prepared and then adapted to the Riezebos’s scoring method in order to attach it to this scoring method as a relevant subsection. Results: Step one showed limited tools have been designed specific to chronic disease applications. In step two, a framework, which was developed by Kelli Hale and the others, was selected as an appropriate tool. In this framework, the authors have used a behavioral theory content survey (BTS), which is a validated tool for assessing mobile apps according to behavior theory. In the last step, Riezebos’s scoring method and the framework were combined as an extension of Riezebos’s method. The BTS-based framework was mapped to the Riezebos’s method in one of the subsections, which is about the application’s content. Conclusion: The current study introduces an extension of Riezebos’s method to assess chronic disease mobile applications. This extension uses a scoring method of Riezebos’s peer-review tool with BTS for chronic disease mobile health apps developers
Authors and Affiliations
Kiana Farhadyar, Farhad Fatehi
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