Table 4.
Application Development and Testing Stage
| Name of Application |
Early-Stage | Development Stage | Testing Stage | Evaluation Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPARK (for children with cancer) | SSPedi testing for SPARK content | Development Team and Web Application Research | Low-fidelity phase; Design phase; High-fidelity phase | Evaluation of each step through interview. The quantitative assessment includes understandable applications, uses, and benefits. |
| SPARK (for family member) |
-- | Development of recommendations using CPGs and panel discussion | Usability test (thinks aloud and cognitive interviews) |
Ease of use |
| SISOM | Literature review, focus group discussion | -- | Interface test on 12 healthy school children; Interview with five healthy school children; and Usability test on 14 healthy children and cancer | Appraisal of a dyad cancer children and their parents to see aspects of the rating, the ease, and benefits of application. |
| Aftercare App. | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Empower Stars! | Groundwork clinical observation | Multidiscplinary team, video game developer, academic and healthcare provider team | Qualitative and quantitative on multilevel subject | -- |
| C-TIPS | Phase I. Development of C-TIPS: 1. Form a Taskforce of HCP to produce content, organization, and feedback on the C-TIPS module. 2. Focus group discussion on parents of children with cancer to get feedback on using C-TIPS and module content. |
Commercial web companies develop applications | Phase II. Formative evaluation to test the usability | -- |
| Pain Squad+ | -- | -- | Usability testing with an iterative approach (2-3 cycles) -- thinking aloud | -- |
| THRIVE | Based on model and theory | Reify Health built a text messaging platform and algorithm A research team consisting of psychologists, nurse practitoners, oncologists, and young adult students designed the text messages |
Pilot RCT for 16 weeks | Feasibilty, acceptability, and questionnaires to assess knowledge, health behavior, health competence beliefs, and quality of life. |
| Facebook-based "Healthy Teens for Soaam" | Need assessment by focus group discussion | Development of module content, expert reviews, and development of Fb-based intervention program | Usability test (heuristics evaluation and users test) | Modifications and final versions of the program, expert review is carried out if necessary. |
SPARK, Supportive Care Prioritization; Assessment, and Recommendation for Kids; C-TIPS, Cancer-Tailored Intervention for Pain and Symptoms; SSPedi, Symptom Screening in Pediatrics Tool; HCP, Health Care Providers; THRIVE, Texting Health Resources to Inform, motiVate, and Engage; RCT, Randomized Controlled Trial; Fb, Facebook