Table 1.
Functionality and key characteristics of the mobile app.
Functionality | Key characteristics (evidence-based) |
Expert consultation | Provides consultations related to exercise and nutrition using text messages, voice recordings, and images; health care professionals respond to the questions within 24 hours. |
Self-monitoring (today’s to-do list) | Allows users to self-check their treatment-related symptoms; allows users to self-assess their physical activity, calorie consumption, sleep, and stress information. |
Personalized health information and education | Offers health information and education on exercise, nutrition, and disease (updated every Monday in webzine form); offers health information and education according to surgery, treatment type, side effects, and comorbidities. |
Personalized exercise management | Offers aerobic exercise with the goal of a specific heart rate and exercise time according to the user’s health information; offers an arm and shoulder exercise program with a video consisting of four steps according to the user’s information (surgery and treatment type) and exercise journal. |
Physical activity management | Recommends target step intensity (normal, brisk, and run), calories, heart rate, and step count (eg, 5000 steps and 200 kcal). |
Diet management | Provides daily guidelines for each food group: Users can record the foods ingested during breakfast, lunch, dinner, and refreshments for a day using speech recognition and text input; recommends nutritional intake according to comorbidities. |
Sleep management | Allows users to track total sleep times, sleep efficacy, REMa sleep time, NREMb sleep time, and sleep quality using a smart band. |
Comorbidity management (weight, blood pressure, blood glucose) | Allows users to use a journal format and Bluetooth-enabled smart device: The target blood pressure and blood glucose levels are indicated; allows users to track their weight, blood pressure, and blood glucose level. |
Stress management | Allows users to track their stress level (categorized as good, normal, low, and high) based on heart rate variation analysis. |
Medication and smoking management | Provides an alarm sound at the time when users should take their medications, allowing them to track their medication intakes; provides an alarm sound to prompt users to record their daily smoking status. |
aREM: rapid eye movement.
bNREM: non-rapid eye movement.