Author, as appears in the article.: Llorens-Vernet, Pere; Miro, Jordi
Department: Psicologia
URV's Author/s: Llorens Vernet, Pere / Miró Martínez, Jordi
Keywords: Validity Telemedicine Surveys and questionnaires Privacy Predictive factors Pain Mobile health Mobile apps Mobile applications Male Mag Humans Health personnel Health Guide Female Disability Delphi technique Delphi method Assessment Adult mobile health mobile apps mag guide delphi method assessment
Abstract: ©Pere Llorens-Vernet, Jordi Miró. Originally published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth (http://mhealth.jmir.org), 31.07.2020. BACKGROUND: In recent years, there has been an exponential growth of mobile health (mHealth)-related apps. This has occurred in a somewhat unsupervised manner. Therefore, having a set of criteria that could be used by all stakeholders to guide the development process and the assessment of the quality of the apps is of most importance. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this paper is to study the validity of the Mobile App Development and Assessment Guide (MAG), a guide recently created to help stakeholders develop and assess mobile health apps. METHODS: To conduct a validation process of the MAG, we used the Delphi method to reach a consensus among participating stakeholders. We identified 158 potential participants: 45 patients as potential end users, 41 health care professionals, and 72 developers. We sent participants an online survey and asked them to rate how important they considered each item in the guide to be on a scale from 0 to 10. Two rounds were enough to reach consensus. RESULTS: In the first round, almost one-third (n=42) of those invited participated, and half of those (n=24) also participated in the second round. Most items in the guide were found to be important to a quality mHealth-related app; a total of 48 criteria were established as important. Privacy, security, and usability were the categories that included most of the important criteria. CONCLUSIONS: The data supports the validity of the MAG. In addition, the findings identified the criteria that stakeholders consider to be most important. The MAG will help advance the field by providing developers, health care professionals, and end users with a valid guide so that they can develop and identify mHealth-related apps that are of quality.
Thematic Areas: Saúde coletiva Medical informatics Health informatics Health care sciences & services Ciência da computação
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: pere.llorens@urv.cat pere.llorens@urv.cat jordi.miro@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-3073-7885 0000-0002-3073-7885 0000-0002-1998-6653
Record's date: 2024-10-12
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://mhealth.jmir.org/2020/7/e17760/
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Jmir Mhealth And Uhealth. 8 (7): e17760-
APA: Llorens-Vernet, Pere; Miro, Jordi (2020). The Mobile App Development and Assessment Guide (MAG): Delphi-Based Validity Study. Jmir Mhealth And Uhealth, 8(7), e17760-. DOI: 10.2196/17760
Article's DOI: 10.2196/17760
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2020
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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