Table 2.
Questions regarding the relevance for each of the nine quality principles (translated from the original German version).
Principle | Perceived relevance |
Practicality | How important is it to you that apps can be used for the intended purpose? |
Risk adequacy | How important is it to you that apps are low risk in terms of health, social, or economic risks? |
Ethical soundness | How important is it to you to avoid discrimination and stigmatization when developing, offering, operating, and using apps? |
Legal conformity | How important is it to you that data protection, professional, and health regulations are respected in apps? |
Content validity | How important is the validity and trustworthiness of the health-related content presented and used in an app to you? |
Technical adequacy | How important are easy maintainability and platform-independent or cross-platform usability of apps to you? |
Usability | How important is the target group–oriented design and operation of apps to you? |
Resource efficiency | How important to you is the efficient use of resources through apps, for example in terms of battery and computing power? |
Transparency | How important is it to you that apps provide transparent information about inherent quality features? |