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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 16.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Educ Prev. 2015 Dec;27(6):522–537. doi: 10.1521/aeap.2015.27.6.522

Table 1. Focus Group Guide.

Education and Information
1. What HIV prevention, testing, and other content would you like to see in a mobile app?
2. What HIV prevention messages should be integrated into a testing app?
3. What is the best format for delivering information using an app?
Identifying Resources
4. How would you like local HIV testing resources to be integrated into a mobile app?
5. How would you like local resources to be integrated into your app? (Probes: listing of resources, map of resources, GPS location, contact information, driving and walking directions, operating hours?)
6. How can we best integrate the new mobile app into existing HIV prevention campaigns for MSM?
Health Data Management
7. What are your privacy and confidentiality concerns if you use a mobile app for HIV prevention and testing?
8. How would you like your mobile app to be able to integrate with social networking Internet sites?
Technology Adoption
9. What are some of the barriers that you anticipate encountering when using mobile health applications on your phone? (Probes: difficulty with medical terminology, unmet information needs, system hard to use, privacy and confidentiality concerns?)
10. What are some of the strategies you can use to overcome these barriers? (Probes: medical dictionary, online resources, member of healthcare team, family member or friend?)
11. What are some of the ways that your overall health may benefit from using mobile health applications? (Probes: better health outcomes, fewer doctor visits?)
12. Anything else that you would like to say that you didn't get a chance to say?