Accepted for/Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Date Submitted: Jun 8, 2020
Date Accepted: Sep 14, 2020
Using mHealth to provide mobile application users with visualization of health check-up data and educational videos on lifestyle-related diseases: methodology paper
ABSTRACT
Background:
The number of individuals with lifestyle-related diseases continues to increase globally. Improving lifestyle behavior with improved health literacy may be the key to improving lifestyle-related diseases. The delivery of educational videos using mobile Health (mHealth) services can replace the current way of educating individuals, and visualizations can replace the provision of health check-up data.
Objective:
This article describes the development of educational content within MIRAMED©, an application (app) which is aimed at improving users’ lifestyle behaviors and health literacy for lifestyle-related diseases.
Methods:
The videos were all based on a single unified framework to provide users with a consistent flow of information in each video. The framework was later turned into a storyboard. The final video contents were created based on this storyboard, in addition to further discussions with the leading experts and specialist physicians on how to best convey the message of each lifestyle-related disease to users.
Results:
The app uses visualized health check-up data in addition to educational videos on lifestyle-related diseases based on current guidelines, scientific evidence and opinions of leading specialist physicians in the respective fields. Eight videos were created by one-to-one matching of an organ with a lifestyle-related disease: namely, 1. brain – cerebrovascular disorder, 2. eyes – diabetic retinopathy, 3. lungs – chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 4. heart – ischemic heart disease, 5. liver – fatty liver, 6. kidneys – chronic kidney disease (diabetic kidney disease), 7. blood vessels – peripheral arterial disease, and 8. nerves – diabetic neuropathy.
Conclusions:
Providing enhanced mHealth education using novel digital technologies to visualize conventional health check-up data and lifestyle-related diseases is an innovative strategy. Future studies to evaluate the efficacy of the developed content are planned.
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