Table 1.
The system-initiated and user-initiated functionalities offered in the MyPal smartphone app
System-initiated functionality | Description | |
PS1 | Physical symptom questionnaires | Notifications to complete physical symptom questionnaires are issued once per week. |
PS2 | Psychoemotional symptom questionnaires | Notifications to complete a psychoemotional symptom questionnaire are issued once per week. |
PS3 | Screener questionnaires | Notifications to complete a screener questionnaire concerning (1) the patient’s ongoing engagement with the MyPal Study, and (2) the risk of medication non-adherence. Responses will determine the motivational messages that patients will be receiving and the highest priority topics for the discussion guide presented to the HCP (issued at months 0, 3 and 6). |
PS4 | Motivational messages | Tailored short motivational messages presented to the patient. Their content is determined based on a custom algorithm that receives input from patient responses (issued twice weekly until week 4, then once weekly until week 24). |
PS5 | Medication reminders | Notifications that remind the patient to take their medication; determined by the patient via the medication management functionality. |
User-initiated functionality |
Description | |
PU1 | Spontaneous symptom reporting | A form that is used by the patient to spontaneously report physical or psychoemotional symptoms in a structured or unstructured way. |
PU2 | Medication management | An editable list of the patient’s medication plan along with the dosage and the frequency of intake. |
PU3 | Personal health information recommender | A personalised search engine that retrieves health information related to health status of the patient. |
PU4 | Self-reported information review | A view that presents the patient’s past responses to physical and psychoemotional questionnaires. |
PU5 | Activity information review | A view that presents past daily step count and sleep quality indicators acquired by the commercial wristband. |
HCP, healthcare provider.