Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Formative Research
Date Submitted: Jul 23, 2025
Open Peer Review Period: Aug 6, 2025 - Oct 1, 2025
Date Accepted: Dec 17, 2025
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Co-designed Multilingual Website in Ethnically Diverse Family Carers of People with Dementia: Preliminary Evaluation Study
ABSTRACT
Background:
Technology can deliver culturally and linguistically appropriate resources to support ethnically diverse dementia family carers (hereafter carers). However, carers’ research involvement in the development and evaluation of such resources is limited.
Objective:
A preliminary evaluation of Draw-Care, a co-designed multilingual web-based dementia resource, was conducted with carers.
Methods:
We used a mixed-methods approach comprising online surveys, ‘think-aloud’ website navigation sessions, Instant Data Analysis, descriptive and thematic analysis, and Hotjar analytics.
Results:
Thirty carers participated. Overall, the Draw-Care resource was acceptable, culturally responsive, engaging, and usable. Issues identified with and proposed improvements were the virtual helper, rating scale, feedback feature, and translation accuracy of the text.
Conclusions:
This novel evaluation of a web-based dementia resource undertaken with carers emphasizes the importance of inclusive, accessible, culturally sensitive, engaging, and useful content and design, and the key revisions needed before a randomized clinical trial to test Draw-Care's effectiveness.
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