Designing a Culturally Appropriate Visually Enhanced Low-Text Mobile Health App Promoting Physical Activity for Latinos: A Qualitative Study.
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2015-01-03
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Rapid proliferation of smartphone ownership and use among Latinos offers a unique opportunity to employ innovative visually enhanced low text VELT mobile health applications mHealth app to promote health behavior change for Latinos at risk for lifestyle related diseases Using focus groups and in depth interviews with 16 promotores and 5 health care providers recruited from California clinics this qualitative study explored perceptions of visuals for a VELT mHealth app promoting physical activity PA and limiting sedentary behavior SB for Latinos In this Phase 1 study participants endorsed visuals portraying PA guidelines and recommended visuals depicting family and socially oriented PA Overall participants supported a VELT mHealth app as an alternative to text based education Findings will inform the future Phase 2 study development of a culturally appropriate VELT mHealth app to promote PA for Latinos improve health literacy and provide an alternative to traditional clinic text based health education materials