title: Community-based participatory research and user-centered design in a diabetes medication information and decision tool.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Together, community-based participatory research (CBPR), user-centered design (UCD), and health information technology (HIT) offer promising approaches to improve health disparities in low-resource settings.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This article describes the application of CBPR and UCD principles to the development of iDecide/Decido, an interactive, tailored, web-based diabetes medication education and decision support tool delivered by community health workers (CHWs) to African American and Latino participants with diabetes in Southwest and Eastside Detroit. The decision aid is offered in English or Spanish and is delivered on an iPad in participants' homes.
  
  
  METHODS
  The overlapping principles of CBPR and UCD used to develop iDecide/Decido include a user-focused or community approach, equitable academic and community partnership in all study phases, an iterative development process that relies on input from all stakeholders, and a program experience that is specified, adapted, and implemented with the target community.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Collaboration between community members, researchers, and developers is especially evident in the program's design concept, animations, pictographs, issue cards, goal setting, tailoring, and additional CHW tools.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The principles of CBPR and UCD can be successfully applied in developing health information tools that are easy to use and understand, interactive, and target health disparities.
authors.affiliation: Center of Health Communications Research University of Michigan.
authors.forename: Vida A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Henderson
authors.forename: Kathryn L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Barr
authors.forename: Lawrence C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: An
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Guajardo
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Newhouse
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mase
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Heisler
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D003150:Community Health Workers; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000458:organization & administration; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000208:ethnology*; D006040:Goals; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D020407:Internet; D007858:Learning; D008824:Michigan; D012307:Risk Factors; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents