ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2018
Presenting self-monitoring test results for consumers: the effects of graphical formats and age.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Personal Health Data Tracking by Blind and Low-Vision People: Survey Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- A Mobile App for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Development and Usability Study.JMIR human factors · 2022Article
- The Impact of Patient Characteristics on Their Attitudes Toward an Online Patient Portal for Communicating Laboratory Test Results: Real-World Study.JMIR formative research · 2021Article
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- Reference range number line format preferred by adults for display of asthma control status.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2020Article
- Older Adults Can Successfully Monitor Symptoms Using an Inclusively Designed Mobile Application.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2020Article
- Visual analogies, not graphs, increase patients' comprehension of changes in their health status.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2020Article
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Abstract
Objective: To examine the effects of graphical formats and age on consumers' comprehension and perceptions of the use of self-monitoring test results. Methods: Participants (36 older and 36 young adults) were required to perform verbatim comprehension and value interpretation tasks with hypothetical self-monitoring test results. The test results were randomly presented by four reference range number lines: basic, color enhanced, color/text enhanced, and personalized information enhanced formats. We measured participants' task performance and eye movement data during task completion, and their perceptions and preference of the graphical formats. Results: The 4 graphical formats yielded comparable task performance, while text/color and personalized information enhanced formats were believed to be easier and more useful in information comprehension, and led to increased confidence in correct comprehension of test results, compared with other formats (all p's < .05). Perceived health risk increased as the formats applied more information cues (p = .008). There were age differences in task performance and visual attention (all p's < .01), while young and older adults had similar perceptions for the 4 formats. Personalized information enhanced format was preferred by both groups. Conclusions: Text/color and personalized information cues appear to be useful for comprehending test results. Future work can be directed to improve the design of graphical formats especially for older adults, and to assess the formats in clinical settings.
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