Developing and Evaluating JIApp: Acceptability and Usability of a Smartphone App System to Improve Self-Management in Young People With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.

Ran A Cai Dominik Beste Hema Chaplin Socrates Varakliotis Linda Suffield Francesca Josephs Debajit Sen Lucy R Wedderburn Yiannakis Ioannou Stephen Hailes Despina Eleftheriou

Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth (2017)

We present the development and evaluation of a smartphone app to encourage self-management and engagement with health care for YP with JIA. The app was found to have high levels of acceptability and usability among YP and HCPs and has the potential to improve health care and outcomes for this age group. Future feasibility testing in a prospective study will firmly establish the reliability, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness of such an app intervention for patients with arthritis.

Keyphrases

juvenile idiopathic arthritis
healthcare
health information
electronic health record
rheumatoid arthritis
disease activity
social media
type diabetes
adipose tissue
metabolic syndrome
systemic lupus erythematosus
risk assessment
skeletal muscle
climate change
human health
affordable care act