Designing websites for persons with cognitive deficits: Design and usability of a psychoeducational intervention for persons with severe mental illness.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of the design elements that influence the ability of persons with severe mental illness (SMI) and cognitive deficits to use a website, and to use this knowledge to design a web-based telehealth application to deliver a psychoeducation program to persons with schizophrenia and their families. Usability testing was conducted with 98 persons with SMI. First, individual website design elements were tested. Based on these results, theoretical website design models were used to create several alternative websites. These designs were tested for their ability to facilitate use by persons with SMI. The final website design is presented. The results indicate that commonly prescribed design models and guidelines produce websites that are poorly suited and confusing to persons with SMI. Our findings suggest an alternative model that should be considered when designing websites and other telehealth interventions for this population. Implications for future studies addressing the characteristics of accessible designs for persons with SMI and cognitive deficits are discussed.

Online, social media and mobile technologies for psychosis treatment: A systematic review on novel user-led interventions

“…Third, although a number of studies provided details on the procedures employed to develop the interventions, only four intervention studies reported involving end-users at some point in the design process (Rotondi et al, 2007(Rotondi et al, , 2010Anttila et al, 2012;Granholm et al, 2012;Alvarez-Jimenez et al, 2013). These findings are at odds with general calls to involve patients in all stages of the design process in order to develop engaging, meaningful and clinically relevant interventions (Hagen et al, 2012).…”

Patients’ perspectives about the design of a mobile application for psychotic disorders

“…In fact, there is a lack of guidelines to develop such technologies for people with psychotic disorders with lower technology literacy (Rotondi et al, 2007) because, usually, self-reported technology skills are higher than demonstrated in task analyses. There are also a few implications for making these tools' usage more reasonable and acceptable for people with severe mental illness, such as having no costs, giving simple instructions to navigate, adequate font size, specific buttons and links, etc.…”

Avaliação de websites por pessoas com deficiência de aprendizagem

“…Entre a literatura encontrada, pouco tem sido relatado sobre a praticidade que as páginas Web devem ter -são exemplos raros os de autores como Sevilla et al, (2007); Rotondi et al (2007) -e nesse parâmetro há menos ainda literatura sobre o que tem sido analisado sobre as preferências dos usuários com deficiências intelectuais.…”