Satisfaction of Mobile Users with mobile Application "Identification, Prevention, and Control of Bed Bugs": Designing and Developing Mobile Health Application
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Research/Original Article (دارای رتبه معتبر)
Abstract:
Introduction
Bed bugs are considered as public health nuisance insects, which can feed on humans and cause psychological distress, insomnia, anxiety, anemia, and skin itching in individuals. The aim of this study was to design and implement a mobile application "identification, prevention, and control of bed bug", and also to assess the satisfaction of mobile users with this application.
Method
In the first phase of this study, the mobile application that includes three steps of identification, prevention, and control of bed bug, was designed and installed on the people's mobile phone. In the second phase, a descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 100 mobile users using an electronic questionnaire. Descriptive data were analyzed by SPSS version 18.
Results
The satisfaction rate of the application users in most of the questions was at high level (more than 80%). According to the users' answers to the question about the impact of educational data presented through this application, its impact was high (78%).
Conclusion
Due to high accessibility, this application increases individuals' knowledge, saves cost and time to control bed bugs, therefore, the use of this mobile health application is recommended.Keywords:
Language:
Persian
Published:
Journal of Health and Biomedical Informatics, Volume:6 Issue: 1, 2019
Pages:
24 to 31
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