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Development and Usability Evaluation of a Mobile Physical Therapeutic Diagnosis Application

모바일 물리치료 진단 어플리케이션 개발 및 사용성 평가

  • Min-Hyung Rhee (Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Pusan National University Hospital) ;
  • Jong-Soon Kim (Department of Physical Therapy, College of Health Sciences, Catholic University of Pusan)
  • 이민형 (부산대학교병원 재활의학팀) ;
  • 김종순 (부산가톨릭대학교 보건과학대학 물리치료학과)
  • Received : 2023.03.26
  • Accepted : 2023.03.31
  • Published : 2023.04.30
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Abstract

Purpose: The physical therapy diagnosis process requires high-level background knowledge, the ability to obtain added information from patients, accurate examination skills, and a framework for transforming thoughts into a diagnostic decision. Thus, the physical therapy diagnostic process is highly complicated and difficult work. To function as autonomous professionals, physical therapists must develop effective clinical diagnosis skills. As such, mobile application aids can help with accurate and scientific diagnoses. Therefore, this study aims to develop and evaluate the usability of a mobile application for physical therapy diagnoses. Methods: In this study, a diagnostic application was developed using App Inventor, the development environment was the Chrome web browser for Windows 10, and the mobile application was run on a Google Pixel 5. The developed application was evaluated for usability by 20 physical therapists with more than 5 years of clinical experience in the musculoskeletal physical therapy field, and a usability evaluation was conducted using a 5-point Likert scale for accuracy, convenience, satisfaction, and usability. The collected Likert scores were converted into percentages and analyzed as descriptive statistics. Results: The graphical user interface consisted of an initial screen with program guidance, 18 screens presenting the algorithm, and 12 screens presenting the estimated diagnosis based on the algorithm. As such, the usability evaluation of the developed application was as follows: accuracy 100%, convenience 90%, satisfaction 91%, and usability 88%. Conclusion: The newly developed mobile application for physical therapeutic diagnoses has a high accuracy, and it will aid in building an easy and reliable physical therapy diagnosis system.

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이 논문은 2021년도 부산가톨릭학교 교내연구비에 의하여 연구되었음

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