TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the COMPASS mobile app
T2 - a citizen science project
AU - Díaz, Jorge Luis
AU - Codern-Bové, Núria
AU - Zomeño, Maria Dolors
AU - Lassale, Camille
AU - Schröder, Helmut
AU - Grau, María
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by Spain’s Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the Carlos III Health Institute [Instituto de Salud Carlos III] FEDER (CM12/03287, CPII17/00012, and FIS17/00250). The authors wish to thank the Docent Community of the Primary School La Maquinista and Montse Zayas for her contribution to the data collection of this project.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - To evaluate the usability of the COMPASS application with mixed-methodology, using a citizen science approach. Parents/tutors of 10–11 years old children attending a primary school in Barcelona, Spain, were invited to take part in the study. We conducted semi-structured interviews on a subset (n = 7) of participants, two weeks after using the app for the first time. A list of suggestions of improvement was extracted from the interviews. The System Usability Scale (SUS, range 0–100) was administered to all participants before and after the improvements were implemented. We provide both a quantitative analysis (t-test of change in SUS scores) and a qualitative thematic analysis of the interviews. A total of 22 participants were included in the study. The mean score before implementation of changes was 68.5 (Standard deviation, SD = 11.1), and improved to 73.1 (10.5) (p-value = 0.025). Regarding the qualitative assessment, we obtained 24 codes and grouped them into 3 categories. It uncovered problems in the installation phase and the main barriers to use: lack of time and the need for the app to evolve. The new version of COMPASS, improved by taking into account the participants’ comments and suggestions, was more usable than the initial version.
AB - To evaluate the usability of the COMPASS application with mixed-methodology, using a citizen science approach. Parents/tutors of 10–11 years old children attending a primary school in Barcelona, Spain, were invited to take part in the study. We conducted semi-structured interviews on a subset (n = 7) of participants, two weeks after using the app for the first time. A list of suggestions of improvement was extracted from the interviews. The System Usability Scale (SUS, range 0–100) was administered to all participants before and after the improvements were implemented. We provide both a quantitative analysis (t-test of change in SUS scores) and a qualitative thematic analysis of the interviews. A total of 22 participants were included in the study. The mean score before implementation of changes was 68.5 (Standard deviation, SD = 11.1), and improved to 73.1 (10.5) (p-value = 0.025). Regarding the qualitative assessment, we obtained 24 codes and grouped them into 3 categories. It uncovered problems in the installation phase and the main barriers to use: lack of time and the need for the app to evolve. The new version of COMPASS, improved by taking into account the participants’ comments and suggestions, was more usable than the initial version.
KW - Cardiovascular diseases
KW - eHealth
KW - mixed methodology
KW - mobile applications
KW - usability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85104773800&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17538157.2021.1902332
DO - 10.1080/17538157.2021.1902332
M3 - Article
C2 - 33847218
AN - SCOPUS:85104773800
SN - 1753-8157
VL - 46
SP - 412
EP - 424
JO - Informatics for Health and Social Care
JF - Informatics for Health and Social Care
IS - 4
ER -
