Affinity Research Approach

Otieno, Mary A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-04394-9_4

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“…Then attributes were grouped together in a process called affinity mapping. Affinity mapping is an approach used in user-centred design methodologies to visually organise qualitative data by grouping based on their meaning and relationships [41,42]. Two categories of groups emerged: groups pertaining to potential intervention components (the 'what' requirements) and groups of user requirements (the 'how' requirements).…”

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User requirements for a digital health self-care intervention: combining the Behaviour Change Wheel and user-centred design

Nourse,

Kayser,

Maddison

2024

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Background: Heart failure is a complex syndrome that requires long-term management including self-care. The rapid advancement of mobile and digital technologies has opened new avenues for developing digital health interventions to facilitate self-care for people with heart failure. The purpose of this study is to explore what barriers people with heart failure in Australia face to self-care in their daily lives and to determine what an intervention must provide to support this. Methods: Four workshops were held with people with heart failure (n=16) and informal caregivers (n=4). These workshops had three main objectives: to explore the self-care challenges experienced by people with heart failure and their caregivers, to gain preliminary ideas for features and functions of a digital health-based intervention, and to understand the user requirements for the intervention. Analysis of the workshops was informed by a requirements analysis method and stages of intervention development outlined by the Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW), which encompasses the capability, opportunity, motivation, and behaviour (COM-B) model, the theoretical domains framework (TDF) and intervention functions. Results: All three COM-B domains and all but three TDF domains were found to be relevant to the self-care challenges experienced by people with heart failure. Analysis of participants’ ideas for possible intervention components resulted in the production of six components for the intervention and aligned with seven intervention functions (education, persuasion, incentivisation, training, environmental restructuring, modelling, and enablement). Requirements for the intervention were grouped into seven themes to describe ‘how’ the intervention must function or operate to support self-care among people with heart failure.Conclusion: User-centred design (UCD) can augment theory-based intervention development processes by providing an intermediary output for a potential intervention which then allows further consideration of solutions by multidisciplinary design teams and future intervention users.

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