title: Online Patient Education for Chronic Disease Management: Consumer Perspectives.
abstract: Patient education plays an important role in chronic disease management. The aim of this study is to identify patients' preferences in regard to the design features of effective online patient education (OPE) and the benefits. A review of the existing literature was conducted in order to identify the benefits of OPE and its essential design features. These design features were empirically tested by conducting survey with patients and caregivers. Reliability analysis, construct validity and regression analysis were performed for data analysis. The results identified patient-tailored information, interactivity, content credibility, clear presentation of content, use of multimedia and interpretability as the essential design features of online patient education websites for chronic disease management.
authors: Faculty of Engineering and Information Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia. win@uow.edu.au.
authors: Khin Than
authors: KT
authors: Win
authors: Faculty of Engineering and Information Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia. nmh786@uowmail.edu.au.
authors: Naffisah Mohd
authors: NM
authors: Hassan
authors: Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. harri.oinas-kukkonen@oulu.fi.
authors: Harri
authors: H
authors: Oinas-Kukkonen
authors: Faculty of Engineering and Information Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia. yasmine@uow.edu.au.
authors: Yasmine
authors: Y
authors: Probst
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D019468:Disease Management; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D057240:Patient Preference; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
keywords: Design features; Online patient education; Patient education; Persuasive systems design; Tailored information