Development of a Novel Mobile Application to Support Self-Management in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

The development of consumer mHealth interventions for chronic condition self-management: A systematic review.

“…Patient enablement of self-management was the most commonly reported impetus for mHealth development. The objective is to provide self-management support [10,11,[15][16][17][18]25], related to treatment adherence [11,13], skill development [22] and knowledge translation [20,23]. Behaviour change modification was highlighted as a significant precluding development factor [25], with physical activity or diet [10] and daily management challenges [17] a specific target.…”

“…Design principles were articulated as being user-centred [19,22,23], person-centred [13], interdisciplinary [20,24] or participatory [10,13,19,26]. External frameworks used for mHealth development include; the US Food and Drug…”

“…Medical, nursing, allied health, rural health clinic staff, primary healthcare centre and medical clinic staff contributed to development processes [13,15,26]. The number of patient participant and healthcare professionals was not disclosed in the mCOPD a intervention abstract [22].…”

“…Centre [22]. A university collaboration for the development of Diabetes 101 demonstrated teamwork between honours students together with technical experts from the College of Arts and Sciences and faculty members from the College of Nursing [24].…”

“…Pre-design work was predominantly expressed as a 'requirement analysis' or 'needs assessment' either for general users diagnosed with a chronic condition or specific to the target users in a patient population. Requirement exercises were conducted with end-users [25], patients [22,26], clinical staff [26] or a specialist physician [23]. To gather these requirements, data collection methods comprised of patient interviews [22,26], staff focus groups [26], considering opinions regarding the role of technology in self-management [26].…”