Self-Care: Exploring Health Consumers’ Interaction with Mobile Health Applications
Consumers with chronic conditions have access to a plethora of mobile applications (‘apps’) to manage their health. Qualitative research confirmed consumers’ willingness to engage with this technology. A checklist was designed to assess the quality and usability of health apps, and trialled 11 asthm...
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2018
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| description | Consumers with chronic conditions have access to a plethora of mobile applications (‘apps’) to manage their health. Qualitative research confirmed consumers’ willingness to engage with this technology. A checklist was designed to assess the quality and usability of health apps, and trialled 11 asthma and 17 hypertension apps, identifying variable yet generally substandard quality. A concept map incorporating blockchain technology subsequently proposed how improved functionality and connectivity can enhance use of consumers’ self-monitored health data. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-705582021-11-02T02:08:11Z Self-Care: Exploring Health Consumers’ Interaction with Mobile Health Applications Anderson, Kevin Consumers with chronic conditions have access to a plethora of mobile applications (‘apps’) to manage their health. Qualitative research confirmed consumers’ willingness to engage with this technology. A checklist was designed to assess the quality and usability of health apps, and trialled 11 asthma and 17 hypertension apps, identifying variable yet generally substandard quality. A concept map incorporating blockchain technology subsequently proposed how improved functionality and connectivity can enhance use of consumers’ self-monitored health data. 2018 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70558 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Anderson, Kevin Self-Care: Exploring Health Consumers’ Interaction with Mobile Health Applications |
| title | Self-Care: Exploring Health Consumers’ Interaction with Mobile Health Applications |
| title_full | Self-Care: Exploring Health Consumers’ Interaction with Mobile Health Applications |
| title_fullStr | Self-Care: Exploring Health Consumers’ Interaction with Mobile Health Applications |
| title_full_unstemmed | Self-Care: Exploring Health Consumers’ Interaction with Mobile Health Applications |
| title_short | Self-Care: Exploring Health Consumers’ Interaction with Mobile Health Applications |
| title_sort | self-care: exploring health consumers’ interaction with mobile health applications |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70558 |