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- A user-centered design approach enhances the effectiveness of eHealth interventions in stroke rehabilitation, but there's a lack of insight into the needs of end-users like patients, caregivers, and health professionals.
- Eight focus groups were conducted to gather requirements from both patients/informal caregivers and health professionals, resulting in the identification of 45 distinct requirements related to accessibility, usability, and content for a stroke eRehabilitation program.
- The findings revealed that while both groups had overlapping requirements, there were also significant differences, highlighting the importance of incorporating the views of all end-users to create effective eRehabilitation tools.
Article Abstract
Background: A user-centered design approach for eHealth interventions improves their effectiveness in stroke rehabilitation. Nevertheless, insight into requirements of end-users (patients/informal caregivers and/or health professionals) for eRehabilitation is lacking. The aim of this study was to identify end-user requirements for a comprehensive eHealth program in stroke rehabilitation.
Methods: Eight focus groups were conducted to identify user requirements; six with patients/informal caregivers and two with health professionals involved in stroke rehabilitation (rehabilitation physicians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, team coordinators, speech therapist). The focus groups were audiotaped and transcribed in full. Direct content analysis was used to identify the end-user requirements for stroke eHealth interventions concerning three categories: accessibility, usability and content.
Results: In total, 45 requirements for the accessibility, usability and content of a stroke eRehabilitation program emerged from the focus groups. Most requirements concerned content (27 requirements), followed by usability (12 requirements) and accessibility (6 requirements). Patients/informal caregivers and health professionals each identified 37 requirements, respectively, with 29 of them overlapping.
Conclusions: Requirements between stroke patients/informal caregivers and health professionals differed on several aspects. Therefore, involving the perspectives of all end users in the design process of stroke eRehabilitation programs is needed to achieve a user-centered design.
Trial Registration: The study was approved by the Medical Ethical Review Board of the Leiden University Medical Center [P15.281].
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6660703 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-019-0871-3 | DOI Listing |
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