Paper Info
Title
The Shared Decision Making Frontier: a Feasibility and Usability Study for Managing Non-Critical Chronic Illness by Combining Behavioural & Decision Theory with Online Technology.
Abstract
The objective of this study is to determine if shared decisions for managing non-critical chronic illness, made through an online biomedical technology intervention, us feasible and usable. The technology intervention incorporates behavioural and decision theories to increase patient engagement, and ultimately long term adherence to health behaviour change. We devised the iheart web intervention as a "proof of concept" in five phases. The implementation incorporates the Vaadin web application framework, Drools, EclipseLink and a MySQL database. Two-thirds of the study participants favoured the technology intervention, based on Likert-scale questions from a post-study questionnaire. Qualitative analysis of think aloud feedback, video screen captures and open-ended questions from the post-study questionnaire uncovered six main areas or themes for improvement. We conclude that online shared decisions for managing a non-critical chronic illness are feasible and usable through the iheart web intervention.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.3233/978-1-61499-564-7-148
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Shared Decision Making,Behavioural Medicine,Choice Architecture,Biomedical Technology Intervention,Chronic Illness
USable,Social media,Biomedical technology,Usability,Knowledge management,Proof of concept,Decision theory,Think aloud protocol,Medicine,Frontier
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
216
0926-9630
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amina Russell110.72
William Van Woensel210315.32
Samina Raza Abidi312822.99