E-MunDiabetes

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic caused tremendous disruption of health systems worldwide. Patients with diabetes are at a high risk of COVID-19 exposure because face-to-face consultations have been standard for diabetes management. This study describes the development and validation of a mobile application for nursing students on diabetes education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The application was developed by a certified diabetes educator nurse and by a freelance programmer and, in the next step, validated in terms of content and appearance by a group of expert nurses on diabetes (n = 29), nursing students (n = 40), and information technology experts (n = 11). Validity indexes of 0.99 for content and 0.92 for appearance were obtained, and usability values of 78.9 (±15.3) and 78.2 (±10.8) were obtained from nursing and information technology experts, respectively. The self-assessment and satisfaction items evaluated by nursing students had a total agreement of 96.3% and an intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.91. Both the content and the appearance of the application were considered adequate, and the usability scores indicate that the application is useful and easy to use.

Heuristic smartphone usability evaluations of the mobile application NANDA, nursing interventions classification, and nursing outcomes classification customized for nursing home registered nurses

“…However, the technological application has not been accomplished for standardized nursing languages (SNLs). Primarily, educational applications are being used to support self‐care for patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension (Liu et al., 2020; Nezamdoust et al., 2022; Schindler‐Ruwisch & Peters, 2021), or to support the acquisition of knowledge and skills in clinical settings for nursing students or nurses (da Silva Negreiros et al., 2022). Most of them are being developed indiscriminately without receiving professional evaluation.…”