Abstract
Due to mobile devices' prevalence, mobile health applications can provide healthcare education to populations that might not otherwise have access to it. A mobile health app was developed to teach about the prevention and treatment of hypertension and diabetes. This app was specifically designed and tailored for an Indian population since these noncommunicable diseases are large contributors to death in Indian adults. A population of migrant Indian workers located in Hong Kong was given healthcare instruction through the app. They showed statistically significant improvement on a pre/post-test about both hypertension and diabetes after interacting with the videos and game in the app. This demonstrates the effectiveness of mobile health apps at providing targeted healthcare education.
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Fendt, M. W., Garner, S., Wong, C. L., George, C., Young, P., Koch, H., … Hitchcock, J. (2021). Using interactive mobile apps for healthcare education with a migrant indian population in Hong Kong. In 15th International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, IHCI 2021 and 14th International Conference on Game and Entertainment Technologies, GET 2021 - Held at the 15th Multi-Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, MCCSIS 2021 (pp. 157–163). IADIS. https://doi.org/10.33965/ihci_get2021_202105l020
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