Table 2.
Participant preferences, concerns, and illustrative quotes regarding Information at One’s Fingertips theme.
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General CF information | |||
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Educational resource for self and others (family, friends) | Generic information not useful, must be CF specific | A: “Sometimes I’ll [wonder when] something happens health-related to me, ‘Is that normal for everyone or…is that happening to me because I have CF?’ And it’s hard to find particular sources where I can find that out.” [Age 35, Female] |
Personal CF information | |||
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Central, accessible storage for personal CF data (eg, medical history, prescriptions) | Privacy, data security | B: “I think that CF can be kind of overwhelming and it’s really nice to have one central location to keep important information and data.” [Age 34, Female] |
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C: “Whenever you go to [a] doctor [they ask], ‘What’s your current list of medications?’…It’d be nice to have the whole history…and then have a place for notes for how well it worked.” [Age 48, Female] |
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D: “I am not going to put medical information in one place unless I know that I can control who sees it.” [Age 31, Male] |
Individual behavioral and health outcomes | |||
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Self-monitor adherence and health status data over time | Cannot guarantee accuracy of self-report, risk for dishonesty | E: “If you had an app that [tracked medication] doses…that said I missed 16 doses [on] 16 mornings…that might be a little bit of a wake-up call for me.” [Age 38, Female] |
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F: “I like being able to see…where I fall on the [PFT] chart and correlate that with how I’m feeling…so if this app can track when I do my meds, when I do my treatments, and I correlate it to how I’m feeling maybe I’ll discover something like, ‘Oh, I feel the best when I do my vest at 1 pm instead of 8 pm.’ ” [Age 24, Female] |