Exploring the Perspectives and Experiences of Older Adults With Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Toward Mobile Health: Qualitative Study

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Abstract

Background

The use of mobile health (mHealth) in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is growing, and as the population ages, a greater number of older adults stand to benefit from mHealth-enhanced airway disease care. Though older adults are a heterogeneous population of health technology users, older age represents a potential barrier to health technology adoption, and there is currently a lack of knowledge on how older age influences mHealth use in asthma and COPD.

Objective

In this qualitative study, we sought to explore the experiences and perspectives of adults who were aged 65 years and older with asthma and COPD toward mHealth use.

Methods

Semistructured individual interviews were conducted with adults who were aged 65 years and older with asthma or COPD and owned a smartphone. Applying phenomenological methodology, we analyzed interview transcripts in order to develop themes and propose an essential experience of mHealth use among older adults with airway disease. We then summarized our qualitative findings and proposed strategies to leverage our results in order to guide future research and implementation efforts targeting older adults’ use of airway mHealth.

Results

Twenty participants (mean age 79.8, SD 4.4 years) were interviewed. Participants described a central tension between (1) the perception that mHealth could help maintain independence throughout aging and (2) an apprehension toward the ways in which mHealth could negatively affect established health care experiences. Several elements of these 2 themes are absent from previous research focusing on younger adults with asthma and COPD. The individual elements of these 2 themes informed potential strategies to optimize future older adults’ use of asthma and COPD mHealth tools.

Conclusions

Focusing on the perspectives and experiences of older adults with asthma and COPD in their use of mHealth identified novel understandings of health technology use in this important demographic in need of greater care. These lessons were translated into potential strategies that will need to be objectively evaluated in future airway mHealth research, development, and implementation efforts.

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Qualitative research explores complex phenomena encountered by clinicians, health care providers, policy makers and consumers. Although partial checklists are available, no consolidated reporting framework exists for any type of qualitative design. To develop a checklist for explicit and comprehensive reporting of qualitative studies (in depth interviews and focus groups). We performed a comprehensive search in Cochrane and Campbell Protocols, Medline, CINAHL, systematic reviews of qualitative studies, author or reviewer guidelines of major medical journals and reference lists of relevant publications for existing checklists used to assess qualitative studies. Seventy-six items from 22 checklists were compiled into a comprehensive list. All items were grouped into three domains: (i) research team and reflexivity, (ii) study design and (iii) data analysis and reporting. Duplicate items and those that were ambiguous, too broadly defined and impractical to assess were removed. Items most frequently included in the checklists related to sampling method, setting for data collection, method of data collection, respondent validation of findings, method of recording data, description of the derivation of themes and inclusion of supporting quotations. We grouped all items into three domains: (i) research team and reflexivity, (ii) study design and (iii) data analysis and reporting. The criteria included in COREQ, a 32-item checklist, can help researchers to report important aspects of the research team, study methods, context of the study, findings, analysis and interpretations.

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Andrew Kouri:

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2566-9187

Women's College Hospital76 Grenville StToronto, ON, M5S 1B2Canada1 (416) 323 6400andrew.kouri@mail.utoronto.ca

Journal

Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Med Internet Res

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J Med Internet Res

Journal ID (publisher-id): JMIR

Title: Journal of Medical Internet Research

Publisher: JMIR Publications (Toronto, Canada )

ISSN (Print): 1439-4456

ISSN (Electronic): 1438-8871

Publication date Collection: 2023

Publication date (Electronic): 22 August 2023

Volume: 25

Electronic Location Identifier: e45955

Affiliations

[1 ] Women's College Hospital Toronto, ON Canada

[2 ] Unity Health Toronto St. Michael’s Hospital Toronto, ON Canada

[3 ] Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation Dalla Lana School of Public Health University of Toronto Toronto, ON Canada

[4 ] Department of Surgery Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto Toronto, ON Canada

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Corresponding Author: Andrew Kouri andrew.kouri@ 123456mail.utoronto.ca

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Andrew Kouri https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2566-9187

Samir Gupta https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7307-6247

Sharon E Straus https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6106-832X

Joanna E M Sale https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0389-3038

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Publisher ID: v25i1e45955

DOI: 10.2196/45955

PMC ID: 10481221

PubMed ID: 37606961

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History

Date received : 23 January 2023

Date revision requested : 3 March 2023

Date revision received : 23 May 2023

Date accepted : 29 June 2023

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