Department of Health Information Sciences, Faculty of Management and Medical Information Sciences, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
Department of Optometry and Vision Science, School of Optometry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2022 Jun 21;22(1):164. doi: 10.1186/s12911-022-01910-w.
Lack of attention to end-users' requirements and preferences may lead to the failure of health information technology (IT) interventions. Identifying users' needs for designing a mobile application can lead to the development of an acceptable intervention. This study aimed to determine the requirements for designing a mobile application to educate and provide needed information to contact lens (CL) wearers.
A qualitative study was conducted on 24 CL wearers and nine eye care practitioners from the three CL clinics in Iran. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using the conventional content analysis proposed by Lundman and Graneheim. Lincoln and Guba's criteria were used to ensure the trustworthiness of the data.
The three main categories that emerged from the interviews were mobile application content, mobile application functionalities, and mobile application features. Ten subcategories and 57 sub-subcategories were also identified. It was determined that mobile content should focus on advice and information for optimizing the CL wearing experience and training regarding the use of CLs. Entering information required for self-care, computational capability, interactivity, updates, and reminders were determined as needed functionalities. The participants recommended features for the structure and user interface of the mobile application and information presentation methods.
This study identified the information needed to develop a mobile application for CL wearers. This also provides insights regarding required functionalities when applying IT interventions. These findings can be used by CL clinics, developers of health information systems, policymakers, and health planners to design better CL-related care and compliance interventions.
如果忽视终端用户的需求和偏好，可能会导致医疗信息技术干预措施的失败。在设计移动应用程序时，确定用户的需求可以促进可接受干预措施的开发。本研究旨在确定设计一款用于教育和提供隐形眼镜（CL）佩戴者所需信息的移动应用程序的要求。
在伊朗的三个 CL 诊所中，对 24 名 CL 佩戴者和 9 名眼科医生进行了定性研究。通过半结构化访谈收集数据，并使用 Lundman 和 Graneheim 提出的常规内容分析进行分析。采用 Lincoln 和 Guba 的标准确保数据的可信度。
访谈中出现了三个主要类别，分别是移动应用程序的内容、移动应用程序的功能和移动应用程序的功能。还确定了 10 个子类别和 57 个子子类别。确定移动内容应侧重于优化 CL 佩戴体验和培训 CL 使用的建议和信息。输入自我护理所需的信息、计算能力、交互性、更新和提醒被确定为所需的功能。参与者还为移动应用程序的结构和用户界面以及信息呈现方法推荐了一些功能。
本研究确定了为 CL 佩戴者开发移动应用程序所需的信息。这也为应用信息技术干预措施时所需的功能提供了一些见解。这些发现可被 CL 诊所、健康信息系统的开发者、政策制定者和卫生规划者用于设计更好的 CL 相关护理和依从性干预措施。
