Designing a Tablet-Based Software App for Mapping Bodily Symptoms: Usability Evaluation and Reproducibility Analysis

JMIR MHealth and UHealth
Till-Ansgar NeubertFlorian Beissner

Abstract

Symptom drawings are widely used as a qualitative and quantitative method of assessing pain symptoms for both clinical and research purposes. As electronic drawings offer many advantages over classical pen-and-paper drawings, the last years have seen a shift toward tablet-based acquisition of symptom drawings. However, software that is used in clinical care requires special attention to usability aspects and design to provide easy access for physically impaired or elderly patients. The aims of this project were to develop a new tablet-based software app specifically designed to collect patients' and doctors' drawings of pain and related bodily symptoms and test it for usability in 2 samples of chronic pain patients (Aim 1) and their treating doctors (Aim 2) as well as for test-retest reliability (Aim 3). In 2 separate studies, symptom drawings from 103 chronic pain patients and their treating doctors were collected using 2 different versions of the app. Both patients and doctors evaluated usability aspects of the app through questionnaires. Results from study 1 were used to improve certain features of the app, which were then evaluated in study 2. Furthermore, a subgroup of 25 patients in study 2 created 2 consecutive symptom d...Continue Reading

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Jan 22, 2020·Pain Practice : the Official Journal of World Institute of Pain·Leticia Amaral CorrêaLeandro Alberto Calazans Nogueira
Feb 6, 2020·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Ana F AlmeidaAnabela G Silva
Sep 7, 2019·JMIR MHealth and UHealth·Nour ShaballoutFlorian Beissner
Jun 4, 2020·JMIR MHealth and UHealth·Stefan SigleChristian Fegeler
Jul 3, 2020·Frontiers in Neurology·Tjalf ZiemssenRocco Haase
Oct 29, 2020·European Journal of Pain : EJP·Syed Mustafa AliSabine N van der Veer
Aug 28, 2021·Journal of Medical Internet Research·Nour ShaballoutFlorian Beissner

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Software Mentioned

Real Statistics Resource Pack
Attrakdiff
FMRIB Library
SymptomMapper
Python Foundation
Excel
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