Design of Mobile Health Tools to Promote Goal Achievement in Self-Management Tasks
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Dicianno, Brad Edward; Henderson, Geoffrey; Parmanto, Bambang
- Source
- JMIR mHealth and uHealth, Vol 5, Iss 7, p e103 (2017)
- Subject
- Information technology
T58.5-58.64
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2291-5222
BackgroundGoal-setting within rehabilitation is a common practice ultimately geared toward helping patients make functional progress. ObjectiveThe purposes of this study were to (1) qualitatively analyze data from a wellness program for patients with spina bifida (SB) and spinal cord injury (SCI) in order to generate software requirements for a goal-setting module to support their complex goal-setting routines, (2) design a prototype of a goal-setting module within an existing mobile health (mHealth) system, and (3) identify what educational content might be necessary to integrate into the system. MethodsA total of 750 goals were analyzed from patients with SB and SCI enrolled in a wellness program. These goals were qualitatively analyzed in order to operationalize a set of software requirements for an mHealth goal-setting module and identify important educational content. ResultsThose of male sex (P=.02) and with SCI diagnosis (P