Isn’t There an App for That? The Role of Smartphone and Tablet Applications for Asthma Education and Self-Management in Adolescents

O'Connor, Antonia; Tai, Andrew; Carson‐Chahhoud, Kristin

doi:10.3390/children8090786

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“…This can lead to further adherence issues due to them hiding their illness and their treatments from their peers and even outright denial. Also, the teen may feel that lower adherence can be helpful, by reducing medication side effects (including possible cosmetic concerns such as acne, weight gain, and hirsutism), financial concerns about paying for medications, concerns re medication taste, fear of addiction or dependence [29], increased flexibility in their personal schedules, avoidance of responsibilities such as school, homework, and household chores, attention seeking behaviors, and the temporary freedom from thinking about their disease.…”

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Precision medicine: how to approach the adolescent asthmatic

Kaplan

2023

Explor Asthma Allergy

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It is well known that adolescent patients often have less than optimal outcomes. Adolescence is a time of much transition, physically, emotionally, and socially all of which have effects on asthma management and outcomes. Pubertal changes affect asthma, but mostly it is the move towards independence from the parents, peer pressures, stigma of illness, and adherence issues that cause the issue. It is thus important to learn to treat the patient directly, wherein currently often children are treated through the parent, to ensure success.

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Section: Adherence Issues Particular To Adolescentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Precision medicine: how to approach the adolescent asthmatic

Kaplan

2023

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“…There have been mobile applications with clinical usage in self-care and self-management of diseases [ 16 , 17 ]. However, limited research has addressed the capabilities of mobile applications in preventing risky behaviors and self-care of adolescents, and these mainly focused on recommending the features and potential of the applications rather than developing and deploying them [ 18 – 20 ]. The current study aimed to develop a mobile application for self-care of adolescents with no medical condition.…”

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Design and usability evaluation of a mobile application for self-care among Iranian adolescents

Rezaee,

Ghaffari,

Rabiei

et al. 2024

BMC Public Health

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Background Mobile phones can be an ideal platform to engage adolescents to maintain, improve, and promote self-care. Therefore, the current study aims to design and evaluate the usability of a mobile application for self-care in adolescents with a user-centered approach. Methods The current applied developmental study was done in four steps. The first step, polling and examining opinions was conducted through in-depth semi-structured interviews, with the aim of user-centered mobile application design with the involvement of 30 participants. The second step, extracting and compiling the educational content related to the main themes of the self-care app, was obtained from national and international guidelines and instructions, including the World Health Organization, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, etc. In the third step, the initial version of the mobile application was developed. In the fourth step, app usability was evaluated by 30 participants from the target group, 2 weeks after using the app, using the MAUQ questionnaire. Results In the first step, 789 codes, 12 sub-categories, and 3 categories were extracted. These codes were used in the design of the mobile application. In the second step, educational information was prepared and arranged in 5 sections (physical activity, nutrition, personal hygiene, risky behaviors and safety and events) in the form of text, images and short videos. In the third step, the mobile application was designed based on step 1 and 2. This application operates in online mode and under the Android operating system. the initial version of the mobile application was developed using JavaScript and Typescript programming languages in a Visual Studio Code environment. In the fourth step, the participants the overall level of usability of the application as very good with an average of 6.28 ± 0.55. The highest average score was given to the user interface and satisfaction with an average score of 6.43 ± 0.58. Conclusions The "My-Care" app is a collaboratively designed smartphone app for adolescents that targets 5 dimensions of physical self-care. This app has the potential to teach, assess, and promote self-care among adolescents.

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“…Universal provision of developmentally appropriate education about adherence is considered foundational for supporting AYAs' development of self-management skills and promoting their adherence (Kobe et al, 2020). Yet traditional methods of education (e.g., static handouts) may be less appealing than digital health (O'Connor et al, 2021). As part of a clinical initiative at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Cancer Center, we sought to develop and disseminate psychoeducation about medication taking for AYAs with cancer that provided empirically supported strategies for fostering adherence (e.g., setting reminders, establishing a routine), as a complement to existing AYA psychoeducation in our program that has not specifically focused on medication adherence.…”

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Social media to promote treatment adherence among adolescents and young adults with chronic health conditions: A topical review and TikTok application.

Psihogios¹,

Ahmed²,

McKelvey³

et al. 2022

Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology

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Objective: Social media is a large facet of contemporary culture, particularly for adolescents and young adults (AYAs). Likewise, digital health interventions have proliferated. Yet understanding of how social media can be leveraged to deliver empirically informed adherence interventions is more limited. This topical review provides a synthesis of literature related to improving AYA treatment adherence through social media approaches. To illustrate a clinical application, we describe an initiative that codeveloped and codisseminated adherence education with AYAs with cancer via TikTok. Methods: Literature searches were conducted on databases including PubMed and PsycINFO, using keywords such as adolescents or young adults; social media; and adherence, self-management, or health. Adherence TikTok videos were developed through user-centered design approaches with AYAs with cancer and clinicians/staff. Results: Results from the review suggested that AYAs use social media to research general health information and obtain support. Research-derived adherence-promotion interventions with social-media-like features appear to be acceptable, and some have led to improvements in adherence. Our process of translating empirically informed adherence education to TikTok was rapid and low cost and obtained 30,797 views. Conclusions: Social media has great promise for advancing the uptake and reach of evidence-based adherence care for AYAs. We highlight opportunities for advancing current clinical practices and future research in this area, including forming clinical partnerships with AYAs to disseminate credible adherence content via the social media platforms that are already part of their daily technology use. Implications for Impact StatementThis topical review found that AYAs currently use social media for health purposes-with or without expert input-and adherence-promotion interventions that incorporate social media features have been acceptable to AYAs. We highlight the potential for and one application of leveraging commercial social Alexandra M. Psihogios https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4111-1191Data from this topical review and clinical initiative have not been presented or published elsewhere. The authors have no conflicts of interest. The adherence clinical initiative was supported by residual funds from a grant entitled "Real-Time Medication Adherence Assessments Among Adolescents and Young Adults With Leukemia" from the Mattie Miracle Cancer Foundation. The writing of this article was supported by a grant from the National Cancer Institute (K08CA241335). The authors express their sincere gratitude to clinicians and staff involved, including Danielle Clerico, Shana Mcgonigle, Jeneane Miller, and Jennifer Lee at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

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Isn’t There an App for That? The Role of Smartphone and Tablet Applications for Asthma Education and Self-Management in Adolescents

Cited by 10 publications

References 63 publications

Precision medicine: how to approach the adolescent asthmatic

Precision medicine: how to approach the adolescent asthmatic

Design and usability evaluation of a mobile application for self-care among Iranian adolescents

Social media to promote treatment adherence among adolescents and young adults with chronic health conditions: A topical review and TikTok application.

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