Know thy eHealth user: Development of biopsychosocial personas from a study of older adults with heart failure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Personas are a canonical user-centered design method increasingly used in health informatics research. Personas-empirically-derived user archetypes-can be used by eHealth designers to gain a robust understanding of their target end users such as patients.

Objective

To develop biopsychosocial personas of older patients with heart failure using quantitative analysis of survey data.

Method

Data were collected using standardized surveys and medical record abstraction from 32 older adults with heart failure recently hospitalized for acute heart failure exacerbation. Hierarchical cluster analysis was performed on a final dataset of n=30. Nonparametric analyses were used to identify differences between clusters on 30 clustering variables and seven outcome variable

SUBMITTER: Holden RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5793874 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature