Research Output
Target Audience and Preferences Related to an Australian Coronary Heart Disease Specific Mobile App: A Mixed Methods Study
  Background:
Widespread availability of mobile technologies offers the opportunity to support secondary prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD) via mobile apps, however, the target audience and their app preferences are unknown. This study aims to identify the potential audience for an Australian CHD specific app and their recommendations and preferences.

Methods:
A two-phase mixed methods study: Phase 1: CHD patients (n = 282) were surveyed on mobile app engagement. Phase 2: Four focus groups with regular app users (n = 12) identified preferences and recommendations generated after using a CHD-specific publicly available app (MyHeartMyLife) for 2 weeks. Data were thematically analysed.

Results:
Survey participants were aged ≥56 years (238/282, 84.4%) and male (204/282, 72.3%). More than one third (108/282, 38.3%) were regular app users, of whom 83/108, (76.9%) used health apps. Regular app users were more likely to be

  • Type:

    Article

  • Date:

    10 June 2019

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    Elsevier BV

  • DOI:

    10.1016/j.hlc.2019.05.178

  • Cross Ref:

    S1443950619306006

  • ISSN:

    1443-9506

  • Library of Congress:

    RA Public aspects of medicine

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    616.1 Diseases of cardiovascular system

  • Funders:

    Edinburgh Napier Funded

Citation

Gallagher, R., Parker, H., Zhang, L., Kirkness, A., Roach, K., Belshaw, J., …Neubeck, L. (2020). Target Audience and Preferences Related to an Australian Coronary Heart Disease Specific Mobile App: A Mixed Methods Study. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 29(5), 696-702. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2019.05.178

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Keywords

Mobile apps, Technology, Coronary heart disease, Secondary prevention

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