A Mobile App for Advance Care Planning and Advance Directives (Accordons-nous): Development and Usability Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Advance care planning, including advance directives, is an important tool that allows patients to express their preferences for care if they are no longer able to express themselves. We developed Accordons-nous, a smartphone app that informs patients about advance care planning and advance directives, facilitates communication on these sensitive topics, and helps patients express their values and preferences for care.

Objective

The first objective of this study is to conduct a usability test of this app. The second objective is to collect users' critical opinions on the usability and relevance of the tool.

Methods

We conducted a usability test by means of a think-aloud method, asking 10 representative patients to complete 7 browsing tasks. We double coded t

SUBMITTER: Schopfer C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9069299 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature