Development of a Mobile Health App (TOGETHERCare) to Reduce Cancer Care Partner Burden: Product Design Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Approximately 6.1 million adults in the United States serve as care partners for cancer survivors. Studies have demonstrated that engaging cancer survivors and their care partners through technology-enabled structured symptom collection has several benefits. Given the high utilization of mobile technologies, even among underserved populations and in low resource areas, mobile apps may provide a meaningful access point for all stakeholders for symptom management.

Objective

We aimed to develop a mobile app incorporating user preferences to enable cancer survivors' care partners to monitor the survivors' health and to provide care partner resources.

Methods

An iterative information gathering process was conducted that included (1) discussions with 138 stakehol

SUBMITTER: Oakley-Girvan I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8398739 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature