Al-Otaibi Hajed M, Ansari Khalid A, Hamad Osama, Alanzi Turki M
Department of Respiratory Therapy, Faculty of Medical Rehabilitation Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Health Sciences, University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK.
Multidiscip Respir Med. 2020 Feb 27;15(1):508. doi: 10.4081/mrm.2020.508. eCollection 2020 Jan 28.
In several countries of the world, smartphone applications have been designed to contribute to the treatment of asthma. However, none of these applications has been developed in Saudi Arabia. Therefore, the objective of this article is to design a smartphone application for the treatment of asthma based on the opinions of healthcare providers from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
In order to know the opinion of the healthcare providers from Saudi Arabia about the design of an asthma App, we used a purposive sampling method and conducted a cross sectional survey employing a questionnaire which was distributed through the QuestionPro.com website to all healthcare providers working in this country. The questionnaire was sent to 376 healthcare providers and the response rate was 25%.
The data indicated that the majority of the respondents opined that the following features were important or very important in the design of a smartphone application for asthma treatment in Saudi Arabia: information about patient diagnosis (98%), primary physician access information(83%), patient satisfaction with the therapeutic process (91%), push notifications about reminder for drugs (95%), push notification for treatment of inhaler and other drugs (92%), push notifications about reminders of clinic visits and therapy sections (81%), push notifications to ask for help sending SMS to primary physician about patients' attacks (89%), pathophysiology of asthma (82%), asthma triggers (98%), drug guidelines (94%), drug side effects (93%), number of asthma attacks (98%), medication statistics (88%), visual inputs such as peak flow (91%), data to link patients to healthcare providers and to healthcare centers (82%), and Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) references (72%).
According to the opinion of the majority of healthcare providers (92%), the proposed smartphone application designed based on medical guidelines will contribute to improve the treatment of patients with asthma in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and will help to reduce the number of asthma cases that need hospitalization, and the number of asthma cases in the emergency departments of the hospitals of the Kingdom.
在世界上的几个国家，已经设计出智能手机应用程序来辅助哮喘治疗。然而，沙特阿拉伯尚未开发出此类应用程序。因此，本文的目的是根据沙特阿拉伯医疗服务提供者的意见，设计一款用于哮喘治疗的智能手机应用程序。
为了解沙特阿拉伯医疗服务提供者对哮喘应用程序设计的看法，我们采用了立意抽样法，并通过QuestionPro.com网站向该国所有在职医疗服务提供者发放问卷进行横断面调查。问卷共发送给376名医疗服务提供者，回复率为25%。
数据表明，大多数受访者认为以下功能在沙特阿拉伯用于哮喘治疗的智能手机应用程序设计中非常重要或极其重要：患者诊断信息（98%）、主治医生访问信息（83%）、患者对治疗过程的满意度（91%）、药物提醒推送通知（95%）、吸入器及其他药物治疗推送通知（92%）、门诊就诊和治疗环节提醒推送通知（81%）、患者发作时向主治医生发送求助短信的推送通知（89%）、哮喘病理生理学（82%）、哮喘诱发因素（98%）、药物指南（94%）、药物副作用（93%）、哮喘发作次数（98%）、用药统计（88%）、诸如峰值流量等视觉输入（91%）、将患者与医疗服务提供者及医疗中心相连接的数据（82%）以及全球哮喘防治创议（GINA）参考文献（72%）。
根据大多数医疗服务提供者（92%）的意见，基于医学指南设计的这款智能手机应用程序将有助于改善沙特阿拉伯哮喘患者的治疗，并有助于减少需要住院治疗的哮喘病例数量以及该国医院急诊科的哮喘病例数量。
