The mHealth App Usability Questionnaire (MAUQ): Development and Validation Study

After a mobile health (mHealth) app is created, an important step is to evaluate the usability of the app before it is released to the public. There are multiple ways of conducting a usability study, one of which is collecting target users' feedback with a usability questionnaire. Different gro...

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Vydané v:JMIR mHealth and uHealth Ročník 7; číslo 4; s. e11500
Hlavní autori: Zhou, Leming, Bao, Jie, Setiawan, I Made Agus, Saptono, Andi, Parmanto, Bambang
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Canada JMIR Publications 11.04.2019
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Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Original Paper
Patients
Pennsylvania
Psychometrics - instrumentation
Psychometrics - methods
Psychometrics - standards
Quantitative psychology
Questionnaires
Reproducibility of Results
Software
Surveys and Questionnaires - standards
Surveys and Questionnaires - statistics & numerical data
Technology Assessment, Biomedical - methods
Technology Assessment, Biomedical - statistics & numerical data
Telemedicine - standards
Telemedicine - statistics & numerical data
Usability
Validation studies
Validation Studies as Topic
Web portals
Pennsylvania
questionnaire design
mobile apps
reliability and validity
ISSN:2291-5222, 2291-5222
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Shrnutí:After a mobile health (mHealth) app is created, an important step is to evaluate the usability of the app before it is released to the public. There are multiple ways of conducting a usability study, one of which is collecting target users' feedback with a usability questionnaire. Different groups have used different questionnaires for mHealth app usability evaluation: The commonly used questionnaires are the System Usability Scale (SUS) and Post-Study System Usability Questionnaire (PSSUQ). However, the SUS and PSSUQ were not designed to evaluate the usability of mHealth apps. Self-written questionnaires are also commonly used for evaluation of mHealth app usability but they have not been validated. The goal of this project was to develop and validate a new mHealth app usability questionnaire. An mHealth app usability questionnaire (MAUQ) was designed by the research team based on a number of existing questionnaires used in previous mobile app usability studies, especially the well-validated questionnaires. MAUQ, SUS, and PSSUQ were then used to evaluate the usability of two mHealth apps: an interactive mHealth app and a standalone mHealth app. The reliability and validity of the new questionnaire were evaluated. The correlation coefficients among MAUQ, SUS, and PSSUQ were calculated. In this study, 128 study participants provided responses to the questionnaire statements. Psychometric analysis indicated that the MAUQ has three subscales and their internal consistency reliability is high. The relevant subscales correlated well with the subscales of the PSSUQ. The overall scale also strongly correlated with the PSSUQ and SUS. Four versions of the MAUQ were created in relation to the type of app (interactive or standalone) and target user of the app (patient or provider). A website has been created to make it convenient for mHealth app developers to use this new questionnaire in order to assess the usability of their mHealth apps. The newly created mHealth app usability questionnaire-MAUQ-has the reliability and validity required to assess mHealth app usability.
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ISSN:2291-5222
2291-5222
DOI:10.2196/11500