5B.001 Developing behavioural theory grounded and user-centred mobile app to prevent infant falls

Cooray, Nipuna; Sun, Si; Adams, Susan; Elkington, Jane; Ho, Catherine; Keay, Lisa; Nassar, Natasha; Brown, Julie

doi:10.1136/injuryprev-2021-safety.124

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“…We identified 5 papers that did analyze existing apps on this issue and evaluated them. However, the excluded conference abstracts [ 22 , 57 ] and study protocols [ 58 , 59 ] indicate that more research is being conducted. Cooray et al [ 57 ] proved this with their article published in 2021 on a behavioral theory-based app for parents to prevent falls in children.…”

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“…However, the excluded conference abstracts [ 22 , 57 ] and study protocols [ 58 , 59 ] indicate that more research is being conducted. Cooray et al [ 57 ] proved this with their article published in 2021 on a behavioral theory-based app for parents to prevent falls in children. They emphasized that their methodological approach was the first of its kind, driven by the same rationale on which our review is based.…”

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Mobile Apps Aimed at Preventing and Handling Unintentional Injuries in Children Aged <7 Years: Systematic Review

Schulze¹,

Lindemann²,

Brand³

et al. 2023

Interact J Med Res

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Background Despite various global health crises, the prevention and handling of unintentional childhood injuries remains an important public health objective. Although several systematic reviews have examined the effectiveness of different child injury prevention measures, these reviews did not address the evaluation of mobile communication intervention tools. Whether and how mobile apps were evaluated provides information on the extent to which communication theories, models, and evidence-based knowledge were considered. Previous studies have shown that the effectiveness of mobile apps increases when theories and evidence are considered during their development. Objective This systematic review aimed to identify research on mobile apps dealing with the prevention and handling of unintentional injuries in children and examine the theoretical and methodological approaches thereof. In addition, this review analyzed the different needs of various target groups of the mobile apps described in the articles. Methods In total, 8 electronic databases, ranging from interdisciplinary to medical and technical as well as social sciences databases, were searched for original research articles or brief reports in peer-reviewed journals or conference proceedings. Moreover, this review encompassed a systematic scan of articles published in the BMJ journal Injury Prevention. These steps were followed by a snowball search based on the literature references in the articles identified through the initial screening. The articles had to be written in English or German, published between 2008 and 2021, and evaluate mobile apps dealing with the prevention and handling of unintentional child injuries. The identified 5 studies were analyzed by 5 independent researchers using an inductive approach. Furthermore, the quality of the studies was assessed using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. Results A total of 5 articles were included and assessed with regard to overall quality of theoretical and methodological foundations, assessed variables, the focal app’s architecture, and the needs of the study participants. The overall study quality was moderate, although part of this classification was due to a lack of details reported in the studies. Each study examined 1 mobile app aimed at parents and other caregivers. Each study assessed at least 1 usability- or user experience-related variable, whereas the needs of the included study participants were detailed in only 20% (1/5) of the cases. However, none of the studies referred to theories such as the Technology Acceptance Model during the development of the apps. Conclusions The future development and evaluation of apps dealing with the prevention and handling of child injuries should combine insights into existing models on user experience and usability with established theories on mobile information behavior. This theory-based approach will increase the validity of such evaluation studies.

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Mobile Apps Aimed at Preventing and Handling Unintentional Injuries in Children Aged <7 Years: Systematic Review

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Lindemann²,

Brand³

et al. 2023

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Mobile Apps Aimed at Preventing and Handling Unintentional Injuries in Children Aged <7 Years: Systematic Review (Preprint)

Schulze¹,

Lindemann²,

Brand³

et al. 2023

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BACKGROUND Even through various global health crises, the prevention and handling of unintentional childhood injuries remains an important public health objective. While several systematic reviews already examined the effectiveness of different types of child injury prevention measures, these reviews did not address the evaluation of mobile communication intervention tools. Whether and how mobile applications were evaluated provides information on the extent to which communication theories, models and evidence-based information were taken into account. Previous studies have shown that the effectiveness of mobile applications increases when they are developed and evaluated theory- and evidence-based. OBJECTIVE This systematic review aims to identify research on mobile apps dealing with the prevention and handling of unintentional injuries in children and to examine the different theoretical and methodological approaches of the identified studies. Additionally, our study analyses the different needs of various target groups of the mobile apps described in the identified papers. METHODS We utilised online databases ranging from Scopus and Web of Science to medical and technical databases such as PubMed or IEEE Xplore, to social sciences databases like Communication & Mass Media Complete or Communication abstracts for the years 2008-2021. Original research articles or brief reports in peer-reviewed journals or conference proceedings/papers that evaluated mobile applications in unintentional child injury prevention were included. The quality of the studies was assessed using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT), which was developed to evaluate the quality of studies with different designs. RESULTS We identified five relevant papers that fit all of our inclusion criteria. The overall study quality was moderate, though part of this classification is due to a lack of details reported in the studies. Each paper examined one mobile application aimed at parents and other caregivers. None of the studies referred to established approaches for researching the usability of an application or other existing theories during the development of the apps. CONCLUSIONS The future development and evaluation of apps dealing with the prevention and handling of childhood accidents should combine insights into existing models on user experience and usability with established theories on mobile information behaviour. With this, the research focus can shift from the technical development and first-phase studies on unconnected variables to collecting evaluation data derived from theories and models to increase their validity.

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5B.001 Developing behavioural theory grounded and user-centred mobile app to prevent infant falls

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Mobile Apps Aimed at Preventing and Handling Unintentional Injuries in Children Aged <7 Years: Systematic Review

Mobile Apps Aimed at Preventing and Handling Unintentional Injuries in Children Aged <7 Years: Systematic Review

Mobile Apps Aimed at Preventing and Handling Unintentional Injuries in Children Aged <7 Years: Systematic Review (Preprint)

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