A Decision Aid Intervention for Family Building After Cancer: Developmental Study on the Initial Steps to Consider When Designing a Web-Based Prototype.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An important aspect of patient-centered care involves ensuring that patient-directed resources are usable, understandable, and responsive to patients' needs. A user-centered design refers to an empathy-based framework and an iterative design approach for developing a product or solution that is based on an in-depth understanding of users' needs, values, abilities, and limitations.

Objective

This study presents the steps taken to develop a prototype for a patient resource for young women who have completed treatment for gonadotoxic cancer to support their decision making about follow-up fertility care and family building.

Methods

User-centered design practices were used to develop Roadmap to Parenthood, a decision aid (DA) website for family building after c

SUBMITTER: Benedict C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7864768 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature