The Development of a Personalized Symptom Management Mobile Health Application for Persons Living with HIV in China.

ABSTRACT: Persons living with HIV (PLWH) continuously experience symptom burdens. Their symptom prevalence and severity are also quite different. Mobile health (mHealth) applications (apps) offer exceptional opportunities for using personalized interventions when and where PLWH are needed. This study aimed to demonstrate the development process of the symptom management (SM) app and the structure and content of it. Our research team systematically searched for evidence-based resources and summarized up-to-date evidence for symptom management and health education. Our multidisciplinary research team that included physicians, nurses, software engineers, and nursing professors, evaluated the structure and content of the drafted app. Both quantitative data and qualitative results were collected at a gro

SUBMITTER: Han S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8146530 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature