title: Development of a novel tool for engaging children and parents in asthma self-management.
abstract: This paper describes the development and evaluation of an innovative application designed to engage children and their parents in weekly asthma self-monitoring and self-management to prompt an early response to deteriorations in chronic asthma control, and to provide their physicians with longitudinal data to assess the effectiveness of asthma therapy and prompt adjustments. The evaluation included 2 iterative usability testing cycles with 6 children with asthma and 2 parents of children with asthma to assess user performance and satisfaction with the application. Several usability problems were identified and changes were made to ensure acceptability of the application and relevance of the content. This novel application is unique compared to existing asthma tools and may shift asthma care from the current reactive, acute care model to a preventive, proactive patient-centered approach where treatment decisions are tailored to patients' individual patterns of chronic asthma control to prevent acute exacerbations.
authors.affiliation: University of Utah, SLC, Utah, USA.
authors.forename: Flory L
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Nkoy
authors.forename: Bryan L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Stone
authors.forename: Bernhard A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Fassl
authors.forename: Karmella
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Koopmeiners
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Halbern
authors.forename: Eun H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Justin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Poll
authors.forename: Joseph W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Hales
authors.forename: Dillon
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Christopher G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Maloney
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D010290:Parents; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D012648:Self Care; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014584:User-Computer Interface