Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting
Date Submitted: Oct 27, 2022
Open Peer Review Period: Nov 18, 2022 - Nov 26, 2022
Date Accepted: Mar 4, 2023
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Usability evaluation and Compatibility test of digital self-management support system for children with cancer and their caregivers: using cloud automation testing platform
ABSTRACT
Background:
Despite developing different smartphone applications in healthcare domain, most of these applications lack proper evaluation. In fact, with the rapid development of smartphones and wireless communication infrastructure, many healthcare systems around the world use these programs to provide health services to the public population without sufficient scientific efforts to design develop and evaluate them.
Objective:
The objective of this study was evaluating usability of CanSelfMan, a self-management system that providing access to reliable information improve communication between children or parents and health care providers, facilitating remote monitoring and promote medication adherence.
Methods:
We performed debugging and compatibility test in a simulated environment to identify possible errors. Next, after the end of the three-week period of using the app, to evaluate the usability and the level of user satisfaction, we used UEQ questionnaire.
Results:
During three weeks of using the CanSelfMan, 270 cases of symptom evaluation and 194 questions were recorded in the system by children and parents and answered by oncologists. After the end of the three-week period of using the app, 44 users completed the standard UEQ user experience questionnaire. Respondents included 25 parents who had a child under the age of seven with cancer. The parents of the participants in this phase were between 27 and 48 years old, most of the parents of the participants were female (16.25, 64%) and the average age of the participants was 32 years.
Conclusions:
Conclusions:
In this study, we described the evaluating process of a self-management system to support children with cancer and their families. Based on the feedback and the scores obtained from the usability evaluation, it seems that the Children and their parents find the overall choice of CanSelfMan as an interesting and practical idea to provide reliable and updated information on cancer and help them manage the complications of this disease.
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