TY - JOUR
T1 - Viewing Mobile Health Technology Design Through the Lens of Amplification Theory
AU - Merid, Beza
AU - Robles, Maria Cielito
AU - Nallamothu, Brahmajee K.
AU - Newman, Mark W.
AU - Skolarus, Lesli E.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by an award from the American Heart Association (20-SFRN35370008, Wearables in Reducing risk and Enhancing Daily Lifestyle [WIRED-L]).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 JMIR Publications. All rights reserved.
PY - 2022/6/1
Y1 - 2022/6/1
N2 - Digital health interventions designed to promote health equity can be valuable tools in the delivery of health care to hardly served patient populations. But if the design of these technologies and the interventions in which they are deployed do not address the myriad structural barriers to care that minoritized patients, patients in rural areas, and patients who have trouble paying for care often face, their impact may be limited. Drawing on our mobile health (mHealth) research in the arena of cardiovascular care and blood pressure management, this viewpoint argues that health care providers and researchers should tend to structural barriers to care as a part of their digital health intervention design. Our 3-step predesign framework, informed by the Amplification Theory of Technology, offers a model that interventionists can follow to address these concerns.
AB - Digital health interventions designed to promote health equity can be valuable tools in the delivery of health care to hardly served patient populations. But if the design of these technologies and the interventions in which they are deployed do not address the myriad structural barriers to care that minoritized patients, patients in rural areas, and patients who have trouble paying for care often face, their impact may be limited. Drawing on our mobile health (mHealth) research in the arena of cardiovascular care and blood pressure management, this viewpoint argues that health care providers and researchers should tend to structural barriers to care as a part of their digital health intervention design. Our 3-step predesign framework, informed by the Amplification Theory of Technology, offers a model that interventionists can follow to address these concerns.
KW - Amplification Theory of Technology
KW - cardiovascular disease
KW - digital health
KW - high blood pressure
KW - mHealth
KW - racial health disparities
KW - structural barriers to health
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U2 - 10.2196/31069
DO - 10.2196/31069
M3 - Article
C2 - 35687411
AN - SCOPUS:85131904058
SN - 2291-5222
VL - 10
JO - JMIR mHealth and uHealth
JF - JMIR mHealth and uHealth
IS - 6
M1 - e31069
ER -