Acceptability and Feasibility of Smart
Phone Application "OSOMO Prompt” for
Health Surveillance in Older Adults by
Community Health Workers
Niruwan TURNBULL
a,b
, Adisorn WONGKONGDECH
a,b
, Ranee
WONGKONGDECH
c,b
, Thanyarat CHAIYAKARM
d,b
, Worawit JITSUKKA
d
,
Nutchanun KAMONROEK
e
, Sutin CHANABOON
f
, Saowaluk SEEDAKET
f
, David
HUGHES
g
and Kukiat TUDPOR
a,b, 1
a
Faculty of Public Health, Mahasarakham University
b
Public Health and Environmental Policy in Southeast Asia Research Cluster
(PHEP-SEA), Mahasarakham University
c
Faculty of Medicine, Mahasarakham University
d
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mahasarakham University
e
Ubon Ratchathani Provincial Health Office
f
Sirindhorn College of Public Health, Khon Kaen
g
Faculty of Medicine, Health & Life Science, Swansea University, Swansea, United
Kingdom
Abstract The magnanimous functionalities and flexibility of smartphone device
make them well suited for collecting field data, especially for the local healthcare
professional. This paper describes the results of the acceptability and feasibility for
community health workers (CHWs) after using smartphone application called
‘OSOMO prompt’ app. The results indicated that the comparison of means of one
sample t-test responses to the questions on the perceived usefulness and perceived
ease of use of ‘OSOMO prompt’ app. The CHWs found that the high average scores
of using the ‘OSOMO prompt’ app were useful in their job (mean=3.97+.68) and
easy to use (Mean=3.95+.62). The app also had high score point of improving the
quality of CHWs work, easy to do CHWs job, clearly and stability app while all
items of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use were statistical significantly
(p-value <.001). In conclusion, challenging of smartphone ‘OSOMO prompt’ app
was feasible and acceptable to CHWs.
Keywords mobile phone application, health surveillance, community health
workers, elderly population, village health volunteer
1. Introduction
Mobile devices have become commonplace in health care settings, leading to rapid
growth in development of medical software applications (app) (1). Smartphone devices
are now widely accessible and powerful to accomplish many the same functions as
desktop computers. It emerges as an option for data collection in real world studies
1
Corresponding author, Kukiat Tudpor, Faculty of Public Health, Mahasarakham University, Kham
Rieng, Kantharawichai, Maha Sarakham, Thailand 44150; E-mail: kukiat.t@msu.ac.th.
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doi:10.3233/SHTI220746
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