Free Blood Donation Mobile Applications

Ouhbi, Sofía; Fernández-Alemán, José Luis; Toval, Ambrosio; Idri, Ali; Pozo, José Rivera

doi:10.1007/s10916-015-0228-0

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“…Other mPHRs than those to keep record of HR can be in some cases restricted to a specific area. This is the case of blood donation mPHRs as it is shown in a previous research [21].…”

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confidence: 65%

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Mobile personal health records for cardiovascular patients

Ouhbi

Idri

Fernández-Alemán

et al. 2015

2015 Third World Conference on Complex Systems (WCCS)

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Monitoring the heart rate and keeping track of the pulse are important actions in the prevention and the treatment of many diseases, particularly heart diseases. A mobile personal health record (mPHR) offers users with cardiovascular problems the possibility to improve the management of their heart rate along with other health data. A large number of apps have been developed to provide users with the opportunity to choose mPHRs within a mobile platform proposing different functionalities. This paper identifies the current list of free mPHRs available in Android platform for smartphone users with cardiovascular problems. This paper also assesses the specifications of the mPHRs selected. The result of this study may assist mPHR seekers to monitor heart rate in their tasks.

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“…Other mPHRs than those to keep record of HR can be in some cases restricted to a specific area. This is the case of blood donation mPHRs as it is shown in a previous research [21].…”

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confidence: 65%

“…We evaluated each mPHR using QA questions for each item [21]: QA1 Has the mPHR an authentication method? QA2 Does the mPHR provide users with services with no geographical restriction?…”

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Mobile personal health records for cardiovascular patients

Ouhbi

Idri

Fernández-Alemán

et al. 2015

2015 Third World Conference on Complex Systems (WCCS)

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“…The use of mobile phone apps for encouraging voluntary blood donation is increasing in the Western countries, but less so in sub-Saharan Africa [19].…”

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Determinants of Intention to Use Mobile Phone Caller Tunes to Promote Voluntary Blood Donation: Cross-Sectional Study (Preprint)

Appiah¹,

Burdine²,

Aftab³

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Background: Voluntary blood donation rates are low in sub-Saharan Africa. Socio-behavioral factors such as a belief that donated blood would be used for performing rituals deter people from donating blood. There is a need for culturally appropriate communication interventions to encourage individuals to donate blood. Healthcare interventions that use mobile phones have increased in developing countries although many of them focus on text messages. A unique feature of mobile phones that has so far not been used for aiding blood donation is "caller tunes". Caller tunes replace the "ring, ring, ring" sound heard by a caller to a mobile phone before the called-party answers the call. In African countries such as Ghana, instead of the typical "ring, ring ring" sound, a caller may hear a message or song. Despite the popularity of such caller tunes, there is lack of empirical studies on their potential use for promoting blood donation or other health behaviors.Objectives: This study used the technology acceptance model (TAM) to explore the influence of the factors -perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, attitude and cost -on intentions of blood/non-blood donors to download blood donation-themed caller tunes to promote blood donation, if they were to be available. The study assesses the potential of using caller tunes among blood/non-blood donors who use or do not use mobile phone caller tunes. Methods:A total of 478 blood donors and 477 non-blood donors were recruited for interviewer-administered questionnaire survey at blood donation sites in Accra, Ghana. Structural equation modeling with the aid of AMOS software (version 25) was used to examine factors that determine intention to use caller tunes for blood donation among blood/non-blood donors who use or do not use mobile phone caller tunes. Results:The findings of our study suggest that TAM has a high explanatory power for behavioral intention to use caller tunes especially among nonblood donors. The R-square for behavioral intention in our study was 34.7% for non-blood donors with caller tunes and 46.2% for non-blood donors with no caller tunes compared with those for blood donors with caller tunes (10.7%) and blood donors with no caller tunes (19.7%). Making caller tunes free to download significantly increased the intention of non-blood donors with no caller tunes to use caller tunes for blood donation (P < 0.001). Conclusion:Overall, our results provide empirical evidence for factors that could influence the intention of using mobile phone caller tunes for aiding blood donation.Our research provides theoretical and practical implications for designing caller tunes for blood donation particularly in Ghana. The study also found that cost is particularly relevant for non-blood donors with no caller tunes.

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“…Smartphones are becoming a valuable tool as regards not only improving the delivery of healthcare [17][18][19][20], but also supporting education in medical disciplines [21,22]. Note that smartphones have already been successfully used to emulate an ARS [23].…”

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An Empirical Study of Neural Network-Based Audience Response Technology in a Human Anatomy Course for Pharmacy Students

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Objective: This paper presents an empirical study of a formative neural network-based assessment approach by using mobile technology to provide pharmacy students with intelligent diagnostic feedback.Method: An unsupervised learning algorithm was integrated with an audience response system called SIDRA in order to generate states that collect some commonality in responses to questions and add diagnostic feedback for guided learning. A total of 89 pharmacy students enrolled on a Human Anatomy course were taught using two different teaching methods. Forty-four students employed intelligent SIDRA (i-SIDRA), whereas 45 students received the same training but without using i-SIDRA.Results: A statistically significant difference was found between the experimental group (i-SIDRA) and the control group (traditional learning methodology), with T (87) = 6.598, p < 0.001. In four MCQs tests, the difference between the number of correct answers in the first attempt and in the last attempt was also studied. A global effect size of 0.644 was achieved in the meta-analysis carried out. The students expressed satisfaction with the content provided by i-SIDRA and the methodology used during the process of learning anatomy (M=4.59).

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Free Blood Donation Mobile Applications

Cited by 57 publications

References 62 publications

Mobile personal health records for cardiovascular patients

Mobile personal health records for cardiovascular patients

Determinants of Intention to Use Mobile Phone Caller Tunes to Promote Voluntary Blood Donation: Cross-Sectional Study (Preprint)

An Empirical Study of Neural Network-Based Audience Response Technology in a Human Anatomy Course for Pharmacy Students

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