IADR Abstract Archives
Design and Development of an Oral Health Promotion App for Adolescents: Topic Guide Construction
Objectives: To construct the topic guide for conducting a semi-structured interview or focus group discussion on exploring the needs of adolescents, their preferences of contents, and functions of an app to facilitate the design and development of a mobile application (app) to improve adolescents' oral health in Hong Kong.
Methods: The topic guide was first drafted based on a narrative literature review on mobile health (mHealth) promotion among adolescents. Four pilot semi-structured interviews were conducted with students aged 12-18. The interviews were recorded, transcribed, and used to refine the topic guide.
Results: Six key areas were constructed: (1) strength of an app against other existing oral health promotion strategies, (2) desired oral health-related information and contents to be included in the app, (3) functions of the app: the necessity of self-assessment, interaction, feedback, and reminder to maintain or improve oral health behavior, (4) prototype and interface design, (5) data protection for users, (6) effective promotion strategy among adolescents in using the app.
Conclusions: This constructed topic guide is ready to be used to conduct a semi-structured interview or focus group discussion on adolescents to facilitate the design and development of a mobile application (app) to improve adolescents' oral health.
Methods: The topic guide was first drafted based on a narrative literature review on mobile health (mHealth) promotion among adolescents. Four pilot semi-structured interviews were conducted with students aged 12-18. The interviews were recorded, transcribed, and used to refine the topic guide.
Results: Six key areas were constructed: (1) strength of an app against other existing oral health promotion strategies, (2) desired oral health-related information and contents to be included in the app, (3) functions of the app: the necessity of self-assessment, interaction, feedback, and reminder to maintain or improve oral health behavior, (4) prototype and interface design, (5) data protection for users, (6) effective promotion strategy among adolescents in using the app.
Conclusions: This constructed topic guide is ready to be used to conduct a semi-structured interview or focus group discussion on adolescents to facilitate the design and development of a mobile application (app) to improve adolescents' oral health.