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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Neurorehabil. 2017 Aug 1;21(7):439–448. doi: 10.1080/17518423.2017.1354092

Table 3.

Critical feedback and suggestions to improve SPAN.

Category Adolescent response Parent response Coach response
Program ● Increase trial time (2)
● Increase and define parent involvement
● Increase trial time (2)
● Increase and define parent involvement
● Increase trial time (2)
App ● Need for push notifications and reminders
● Ability to customize look and feel of app
● Streamline steps vs. strategies
● Intro or wizard to using the app when first opened
● Gaining access to the app was difficult
● Beneficial for everyone (parents) to have access to the app as well.
● Intro to app for adolescents to use
● Needs more prompting and reminders (3)
● Need verification of tasks completed
● Improve style and visual appeal.
● Could only access app on 1 device
● Tech issues
● Need for push notifications and reminders (2)
● App count days working on goal from entry date, not date of beginning work on the goal
● Planning wizard and next steps can be repetitive.
Tips/topics ● Time consuming to look over
● Color scheme issues
● Too much reading ● Stylization of text to be edited for ease and of reading
● Change layout on site to be less busy
Key topics ● Text-dense and overwhelming
● Color scheme issues
● Text-dense and overwhelming
● Too much reading
● Not generally used in the trial
● Change layout on site to be less busy
● Make more interactive modules using multimedia
● Make topics more enjoyable to read (stylization and length)
● Addition of tips (memory, organization, and budgeting) that may help in social outings.
Coaching ● Length of meetings should be as needed, not set time. ● Session time seemed too long. ● Streamline supervision
● Identification and screening of adolescents who are self-motivated

Note. Numbers in parentheses following comments indicate the number of respondents (if more than one) that reported the same or similar comment.