FGMReview: design of a knowledge management tool on female genital mutilation.
Web-based literature search engines may not be user-friendly for some readers searching for information on female genital mutilation. This is a traditional practice that has no health benefits, and about 140 million girls and women worldwide have undergone it. In 2012, the website FGMReview was created with the aim to offer a user-friendly, accessible, scalable, and innovative knowledge management tool specialized in female genital mutilation. The design of this website was guided by a conceptual model based on the use of benchmarking techniques and requirements engineering, an area of knowledge from the computer informatics field, influenced by the Transcultural Nursing model. The purpose of this article is to describe this conceptual model. Nurses and other health care providers can use this conceptual model to guide their methodological approach to design and launch other eHealth projects.
University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain Médecins Sans Frontiéres, Brussels, Belgium gmartinezgabas@gmail.com.
Guillermo
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Martínez Pérez
Médecins Sans Frontiéres, Brussels, Belgium.
Risa
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Turetsky
D019093:Circumcision, Female; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D058436:Knowledge Management; D016294:Models, Nursing; D016746:Transcultural Nursing
Internet; eHealth; instrument development; requirements engineering; transcultural health; women’s health