An Integrated mHealth App for Dengue Reporting and Mapping, Health Communication, and Behavior Modification: Development and Assessment of Mozzify
An Integrated mHealth App for Dengue Reporting and Mapping, Health Communication, and Behavior Modification: Development and Assessment of Mozzify
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10.2196/16424
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发表时间：
2020-01-01
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2.2
通讯作者：
Watanabe, Kozo
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作者：
Herbuela, Von Ralph Dane Marquez;Karita, Tomonori;Watanabe, Kozo
背景资料：在过去10年中，移动的电话为全球卫生界提供了具有成本效益的创新战略，以应对登革热预防和管理方面的挑战。目的是介绍和描述Mozzify的设计和开发过程，Mozzify是一个集成的移动的健康（mHealth）应用程序，具有实时登革热病例报告和绘图系统，健康交流（实时全球新闻和聊天论坛/时间轴、应用程序内教育视频、与当地和国际卫生机构网站的链接、交互式体征和症状检查器以及医院指导系统）和行为矫正（登革热预防措施提醒警报程序）。我们还旨在评估Mozzify的参与和信息共享能力，功能，美学，主观质量和感知impacts.Methods：Mozzify应用程序的主要目标是提高认识，提高知识，并改变对登革热的态度，寻求医疗保健的行为，并打算改变行为的预防措施，为用户之间的登革热。使用移动的应用程序评定量表（MARS）对50名有目的抽样的个人进行评估：公共卫生专家（n=5），环境和健康相关研究人员（n=23），以及非临床研究人员（n=23）。（最终用户）参与者（n=22）。高可接受性和出色的满意度评级（平均得分=4.0/5）表明，该应用程序具有出色的用户设计、功能、可用性、参与度和公共卫生专家、环境和健康相关研究人员的信息，和最终用户。应用程序的主观质量（向其他人推荐应用程序和应用程序的整体星星评级）和具体质量（提高认识，改善知识，改变对登革热的态度;寻求医疗保健的行为;以及意图改变登革热预防措施的行为）也获得了参与者的满意度。在焦点小组和个人讨论中提出了一些问题和建议，涉及Android设备应用程序的可用性、语言选项限制、提供预测性监测以及纳入其他蚊媒疾病。结论：Mozzify可能是登革热病例报告和绘图的一个有前途的综合战略卫生干预系统;提高对登革热的认识、增进知识和改变态度;以及向一般民众和卫生专家传播和分享有关登革热的信息。它也可以有效地帮助成功地将登革热预防措施的知识转化为实践。
Background: For the last 10 years, mobile phones have provided the global health community with innovative and cost-effective strategies to address the challenges in the prevention and management of dengue fever.Objective: The aim is to introduce and describe the design and development process of Mozzify, an integrated mobile health (mHealth) app that features real-time dengue fever case reporting and mapping system, health communication (real-time worldwide news and chat forum/timeline, within-app educational videos, links to local and international health agency websites, interactive signs and symptoms checker, and a hospital directions system), and behavior modification (reminders alert program on the preventive practices against dengue fever). We also aim to assess Mozzify in terms of engagement and information-sharing abilities, functionality, aesthetics, subjective quality, and perceived impact.Methods: The main goals of the Mozzify app were to increase awareness, improve knowledge, and change attitudes about dengue fever, health care-seeking behavior, and intention-to-change behavior on preventive practices for dengue fever among users. It was assessed using the Mobile Application Rating Scale (MARS) among 50 purposively sampled individuals: public health experts (n=5), environment and health-related researchers (n=23), and nonclinical (end users) participants (n=22).Results: High acceptability and excellent satisfaction ratings (mean scores =4.0 out of 5) based on the MARS subscales indicate that the app has excellent user design, functionality, usability, engagement, and information among public health experts, environment and health-related researchers, and end users. The app's subjective quality (recommending the app to other people and the app's overall star rating), and specific quality (increase awareness, improve knowledge, and change attitudes about dengue fever; health care-seeking behavior; and intention-to-change behavior on preventive practices for dengue fever) also obtained excellent satisfaction ratings from the participants. Some issues and suggestions were raised during the focus group and individual discussions regarding the availability of the app for Android devices, language options limitations, provision of predictive surveillance, and inclusion of other mosquito-borne diseases.Conclusions: Mozzify may be a promising integrated strategic health intervention system for dengue fever case reporting and mapping; increase awareness, improve knowledge, and change attitude about dengue fever; and disseminating and sharing information on dengue fever among the general population and health experts. It also can be an effective aid in the successful translation of knowledge on preventive measures against dengue fever to practice.