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. 2019 Oct 3;7(10):e15871. doi: 10.2196/15871

Table 2.

Themes related to limitations of the existing app.

Themes Health care professionals (n=10) Inpatient participants (n=5) Outpatient participants (n=5)
Design of the app
  • “Buttons were too small” making them “easy to miss” [Participant 2]

  • “Press a few times, will add on to the reaction time” [Participant 1]

  • “There is no try out to understand how it works.” [Participants 3 and 5]

  • No mention

  • “More instructions”[Participant 2]

  • “When I got things clear, I focus on star” [Participant 5]

  • “No design or anything” [Participant 1]

  • Buttons to be “bigger” [Participant 1]

  • “Joystick interface” to indicate a response [Participant 2]

Visual probe tasks
  • “Too many repetitions” [Participant 2]

  • The task was “so fast” [Participants 3 and 5].

  • “Distinguish the frame from one another looking at the asterisk” [Participant 1]

  • “Focusing on the asterisk only.” [Participants 3 and 7]

  • “Pictures were so fast, after a while, I stopped paying attention and just look for the asterisk” [Participant 8]

  • “Were too fast” [Participants 3, 5 and 7]

  • “My mind cannot catch up, fingers cannot catch up” [Participant 5]

  • “Repetition is the same” [Participant 5]

  • Task is “too tedious” [Participant 3]

  • The trial was “too long” [Participants 1 and 4]

  • “Too fast” and “quick” [Participants 2, 4, and 5]

  • “I never even have a chance to see” [Participant 1]

  • “Too fast. My mind was to aim for the star. The pictures I was not interested.” [Participant 4]

  • “It is too fast that we don’t really see the picture” [Participant 3]

Images included in the visual probe task
  • “Image colour does not stick out” [Participant 3]

  • “Non-white background will enhance the focus of the images” [Participant 2]

  • The “colour is dull” and “the images are repetitive” [Participant 1]

  • “I see the same image for 30 times or more” [Participant 1]

  • “Keep seeing the same pictures” [Participant 3]

  • “Very boring, put more pictures” [Participant 1]

  • “Maybe more picture, very repetitive. I keep on seeing the same pictures over and over again” [Participant 2]

  • “It comes in pairs. It always weed and chocolate cake. You can figure out” [Participant 2]

Safety of administering the app
  • No mention

  • No mention

  • “Triggering. Like I think just keep seeing pictures of drug of choice” [Participant 2]

  • “Early recovery is triggering. For myself, if I am in detox, might trigger me.” [Participant 5]