Benefits of mHealth Co-design for African American and Hispanic Adults: Multi-Method Participatory Research for a Health Information App.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Participatory research methodologies can provide insight into the use of mobile health (mHealth) apps, cultural preferences and needs, and health literacy issues for racial and ethnic groups, such as African Americans and Hispanics who experience health disparities.

Objective

This methodological paper aims to describe a 1-year multi-method participatory research process that directly engaged English-speaking African American and bilingual or Spanish-speaking Hispanic adults in designing a prevention-focused, personalized mHealth, information-seeking smartphone app. We report design team participants' experiences with the methods to show why our approach is valuable in producing apps that are more aligned with their needs.

Methods

Three design sessions were

SUBMITTER: Jackson DN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8943540 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature