Teo Chin Hai, Ng Chirk Jenn, White Alan
Department of Primary Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Centre for Men's Health, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom.
PLoS One. 2017 Jan 6;12(1):e0169435. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169435. eCollection 2017.
There is a lack of mobile app which aims to improve health screening uptake developed for men. As part of the study to develop an effective mobile app to increase health screening uptake in men, we conducted a needs assessment to find out what do men want from a health screening mobile app. In-depth interviews and focus group discussions were conducted with 31 men from a banking institution in Kuala Lumpur. The participants were purposely sampled according to their job position, age, ethnicity and screening status. The recruitment was stopped once data saturation was achieved. The audio-recorded interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using thematic approach. Three themes emerged from the analysis and they were: content, feature and dissemination. In terms of the content, men wanted the app to provide information regarding health screening and functions that can assess their health; which must be personalized to them and are trustable. The app must have user-friendly features in terms of information delivery, ease of use, attention allocation and social connectivity. For dissemination, men proposed that advertisements, recommendations by health professionals, providing incentive and integrating the app as into existing systems may help to increase the dissemination of the app. This study identified important factors that need to be considered when developing a mobile app to improve health screening uptake. Future studies on mobile app development should elicit users' preference and need in terms of its content, features and dissemination strategies to improve the acceptability and the chance of successful implementation.
目前缺乏专门为男性开发的旨在提高健康筛查参与率的移动应用程序。作为开发一款有效提高男性健康筛查参与率的移动应用程序研究的一部分，我们进行了一项需求评估，以了解男性对健康筛查移动应用程序的期望。我们对吉隆坡一家银行机构的31名男性进行了深入访谈和焦点小组讨论。参与者是根据他们的工作岗位、年龄、种族和筛查状况进行有目的抽样的。一旦达到数据饱和，招募即停止。对录音访谈进行逐字转录，并采用主题分析法进行分析。分析得出了三个主题，分别是：内容、功能和传播。在内容方面，男性希望该应用程序能提供有关健康筛查的信息以及可评估其健康状况的功能；这些信息和功能必须针对他们个人进行定制且值得信赖。该应用程序在信息传递、易用性、注意力分配和社交连接方面必须具备用户友好的功能。在传播方面，男性建议广告、健康专业人员的推荐、提供激励措施以及将该应用程序整合到现有系统中可能有助于提高该应用程序的传播。本研究确定了开发一款提高健康筛查参与率的移动应用程序时需要考虑的重要因素。未来关于移动应用程序开发的研究应在其内容、功能和传播策略方面引出用户的偏好和需求，以提高可接受性和成功实施的机会。
