Mobile devices become usual advancements in daily lifestyles. Smart phone is now cheaper, a plenty of people were drawn into this virtual world. In Thailand, forgetting medication is one factor that affect uncontrolled diabetes. This study implemented research survey to developed primary care units (PCU) ’s portable diabetes application that cooperated diabetes patient and PCU service together. To survey and analyze the requirement of mobile application developing for diabetes patients in PCU that was approved for EASYDM application production
This survey is requirement analysis of mobile application, conducted August 2019 in PCU, Saimai, Bangkok, Thailand. In this study, 2 questionnaires on EASYDM mobile application requirements was designed: application user accessibility survey questionnaire, application user requirement survey questionnaire and questionnaires were given to 584 outpatients and 8 PCU staffs. SPSS 13.0 was used for statistical analyses.
Findings: Sample were equal frequent in gender, age 41-55 years (46.4%) and middle school (46.4%). All mobile device type were android and less than 30% have application download experience.
Patients group recommendation were Thai language (54.5%) and less complex (43.7%). Both patients and staffs group range glycemic control as the first goal of the application. Patients group need appraisal function the most (99.3%) when staff group were reminder buzz, health index and laboratory information (100%).
This study shown the requirements and draws a brief picture of application. The survey suggest that languages and complexity are the most concern patient group. Prefer application were tri-parties and communicable.