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Design and Evaluation of the Patient Screening Questionnaire with ‎the aim of Increasing Adherence‏ ‏‎(PSQ_IA) based on the Elaboration ‎Likelihood Model: Approach Leveraging Behavior Change ‎TechniquesNowadays, the use of applications in the self-management of chronic diseases is emphasized. ‎Adherence to self-management behavior can be increased by personalizing the educational ‎content provided in the application based on behavior change techniques. According to evidence-‎based reasons, the most effective behavior change techniques were selected in preparing the ‎educational content of self-care applications, however, there was no questionnaire to screen ‎patients when entering the field of self-care application studies.‎

  • Azam Kheirdoust; 
  • Mohammad Reza Mazaheri Habibi; 
  • Ali Emadzadeh; 
  • Ali Jafarzadeh Esfehani; 
  • Raheleh Ghouchan Nezhad Noor Nia; 
  • Saeid Eslami

ABSTRACT

Background:

Nowadays, the use of applications in the self-management of chronic diseases is emphasized. ‎Adherence to self-management behavior can be increased by personalizing the educational ‎content provided in the application based on behavior change techniques. According to evidence-‎based reasons, the most effective behavior change techniques were selected in preparing the ‎educational content of self-care applications, however, there was no questionnaire to screen ‎patients when entering the field of self-care application studies.‎

Objective:

The purpose of this study was to design and validate a questionnaire for screening patients using ‎self-management applications based on the Elaboration Likelihood Model(ELM).‎

Methods:

To create the desired questionnaire, studies on the approach of using behavior change techniques ‎to motivate and increase patients' adherence were examined, and then the Patient Screening ‎Questionnaire with the aim of Increasing Adherence (PSQ_IA) was developed based on the ‎elaboration likelihood model. The questionnaire consisted of 32 specialized questions, in two ‎descriptive sections (14 questions) and multiple choice (18 questions) based on a 5-point Likert ‎scale. The validity of the questionnaire was evaluated by 3 experts in the field of medical ‎education and reliability during a test-retest with an interval of three weeks. ‎

Results:

There was no significant difference in the total scores of the questionnaire between the test and ‎the retest (with an average of p=0.196). The distribution of the frequency of the main and ‎subcategories between the test and the retest was in agreement (kappa coefficient 0.00 1). In this ‎study, except for 2 cases, the CVI of the items was higher than 0.78, but because the CVR of all ‎the items was higher than 0.79, the validity of the overall content of the questionnaire and its ‎variables was confirmed.‎

Conclusions:

The screening questionnaire for chronic patients at the beginning of the self-care application ‎studies based on the elaboration likelihood model had good and acceptable reliability and ‎validity. This tool is recommended for ‎screening‎ patients in order to personalize the content of ‎self-management training to increase adherence to treatment. ‎


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Kheirdoust A, Mazaheri Habibi MR, Emadzadeh A, Jafarzadeh Esfehani A, Ghouchan Nezhad Noor Nia R, Eslami S

Design and Evaluation of the Patient Screening Questionnaire with ‎the aim of Increasing Adherence‏ ‏‎(PSQ_IA) based on the Elaboration ‎Likelihood Model: Approach Leveraging Behavior Change ‎TechniquesNowadays, the use of applications in the self-management of chronic diseases is emphasized. ‎Adherence to self-management behavior can be increased by personalizing the educational ‎content provided in the application based on behavior change techniques. According to evidence-‎based reasons, the most effective behavior change techniques were selected in preparing the ‎educational content of self-care applications, however, there was no questionnaire to screen ‎patients when entering the field of self-care application studies.‎

JMIR Preprints. 22/07/2023:51143

DOI: 10.2196/preprints.51143

URL: https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/51143

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