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Development of a Mobile App for Self-Care Against COVID-19 Using the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (ADDIE) Model: Methodological Study

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posted on 2022-10-11, 13:35 authored by Hamid Reza Saeidnia, Marcin Kozak, Marcel Ausloos, Claudiu Herteliu, Zahra Mohammadzadeh, Ali Ghorbi, Mehrdad Karajizadeh, Mohammad Hassanzadeh

Background:

Mobile apps have been shown to play an important role in the management, care, and prevention of infectious diseases. Thus, skills for self-care—one of the most effective ways to prevent illness—can be improved through mobile health apps.


Objective:

This study aimed to design, develop, and evaluate an educational mobile-based self-care app in order to help the self-prevention of COVID-19 in underdeveloped countries. We intended the app to be easy to use, quick, and inexpensive.


Methods:

In 2020 and 2021, we conducted a methodological study. Using the ADDIE (analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation) educational model, we developed a self-care management mobile app. According to the ADDIE model, an effective training and performance support tool is built through the 5 phases that comprise its name. There were 27 participants who conducted 2 evaluations of the mobile app’s usability and impact using the mobile health app usability and self-care inventory scales. The study design included pre- and posttesting.


Results:

An Android app called MyShield was developed. The results of pre- and posttests showed that on a scale from 0 to 5, MyShield scored a performance average of 4.17 in the physical health dimension and an average of 3.88 in the mental well-being dimension, thereby showing positive effects on self-care skills. MyShield scored highly on the “interface and satisfaction,” “ease of use,” and “usefulness” components.


Conclusions:

MyShield facilitates learning self-care skills at home, even during quarantine, increasing acquisition of information. Given its low development cost and the ADDIE educational design on which it is based, the app can be helpful in underdeveloped countries. Thus, low-income countries—often lacking other tools—can use the app as an effective tool for fighting COVID-19, if it becomes a standard mobile app recommended by the government.

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Author affiliation

School of Business, University of Leicester

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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JMIR Formative Research

Volume

6

Issue

9

Publisher

JMIR Publications Inc.

issn

2561-326X

eissn

2561-326X

Copyright date

2022

Available date

2022-10-11

Spatial coverage

Canada

Language

en

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