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. 2022 May;51(5):1020-1029.
doi: 10.18502/ijph.v51i5.9417.

Design and Application of Health Education Apps Based on WeChat for Self-Management among Patients

Hai-Ling Yang  1   2 , Xiao-Rong Luan  3 , Ling-Ling Zhao  4 , Jun-Wen Wang  5 , Yuan-Yuan Chen  1
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Design and Application of Health Education Apps Based on WeChat for Self-Management among Patients

Hai-Ling Yang et al. Iran J Public Health. 2022 May.

Abstract

Background: We started to design and test health education Apps for self-management among patients to provide a rich source of clinical support and information for patients to increase their ability of self-management.

Methods: First, a multidisciplinary research team worked together to design and conduct the research. With their help, we redesigned an apps to incorporate some personalized changes for patients' needs. Second, we chose a questionnaire from the Comprehensive Service Platform for the Elderly self-designed by CHENYu. Finally, a purposive sample of 34 users were tested experiences and satisfaction of users in Jul 2021.

Results: This research was successfully conducted in 22 wards among 23159 patients and 40440 chapters about healthy information sent to patients from Mar 2019 to January 2021 by smartphone. The data showed that 91.2% of participants resolved that the evaluation effect of the proposed application was better, in comparison with the paper version as routine verbal instruction. Additionally, 85.3% of participants wanted to continue to receive medical education information after discharge from the hospital. The top four most popular medical education information that they would like to receive included drug administration, disease prevention, nursing, and home care. Moreover, the top four most popular types of user suggestions were one-on-one online Q & A, continue to see every session, accelerate the speed of browsing and page updated, and free Wifi. The user satisfaction of the application was considerably high.

Conclusion: The apps was welcomed by patients who wanted to increase their knowledge level of disease and perform self-management better.

Keywords: Health education; Nursing; Patient; Self-management; Smartphone apps.

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Conflict of interest The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

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Method of application for patients
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Introduction of the apps for chest surgery department (I)
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Introduction of the app for chest surgery department (II)
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Apps screenshot of video on fall
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