Designing a Patient-Friendly Website for Newly Diagnosed Cancer Patients with the Participatory Health Research Approach.

ABSTRACT: High-quality and user-friendly patient information material (PIM) is essential for understanding and accepting a new care programme. When optimising the PIM of the integrated, cross-sectoral psycho-oncological (isPO) care programme, the design of the fifth element of the patient information strategy-the patient-friendly website-was still pending. In this paper, the iterative design process of the patient-friendly isPO website is described. We applied the participatory health research (PHR) approach to enable high levels of participation of its respective end-users (e.g., cancer survivors), service providers, and experts. The design included six steps: (1) initiation, (2) planning, (3) initial idea exploration, (4) creation of a first working version, (5) three optimisation loops, and (6) d

SUBMITTER: Rackerseder J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8872440 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature