Acceptability and Feasibility of Smart Phone Application “OSOMO Prompt” for Health Surveillance in Older Adults by Community Health Workers

Abstract

The magnanimous functionalities and flexibility of smartphone device make them well suited for collecting field data, especially for the local healthcare professional. This paper describes the results of the acceptability and feasibilityfor community health workers (CHWs) after using smartphone application called ‘OSOMO prompt’ app. The results indicated that the comparison of means of one sample t-test responses to the questions on the perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use of ‘OSOMO prompt’ app. The CHWs found that the high average scores of using the ‘OSOMO prompt’ app were useful in their job (mean=3.97±.68) and easy to use (Mean=3.95±.62). The app also had high score point of improving the quality of CHWs work, easy to do CHWs job, clearly and stability app while all items of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use were statistical significantly (p-value <.001). In conclusion, challenging of smartphone ‘OSOMO prompt’ app was feasible and acceptable to CHWs.

Development of OSOMO Prompt Mobile Application on Elderly Population for Village Health Volunteers Using the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (ADDIE) Model

“…Data were voluntarily collected from 601 VHVs who used this app and worked in the eight areas of the project. The full report of TAM has been published elsewhere (6).…”