Fikerte Gedamu, Imam Dagne, Abdu Oumer
Association between dietary consumption patterns and the development of adolescent overnutrition in eastern Ethiopia: new perspectives
Frontiers in nutrition
future shortage physicians especially general practice result increasing workload health care providers whole therefore important optimize patientencounter processes increase time efficiency related visits utilizing digital tools record patients medical histories prior consultation offers great potential achieve goal collected information stored practices electronic medical record allowing general practitioner review structured information patients complaints related medical history beforehand thereby saving time encounter however low usability new digital developments setting often hinders implementation aim study evaluate usability app designed medical history taking general practice capture patients perspective november 2021 january 2022 recruited 406 patients acute complaints one outofhour urgent care seven general practice clinics study participants used app waiting time subsequently assessed usability completing system usability scale sus robust wellestablished 10question survey measuring perceived usability products technologies additionally collected general participant information including age sex media usage health literacy native language descriptive inferential statistics applied identify patient characteristics associated low high sus scores analyzed data 397 patients 567 female 433 male mean total sus score 778 points 544 216397 participants sus scores 80 points higher indicating high usability app multiple linear regression predicting sus score male sex higher age 65 years older significantly negatively associated sus score conversely higher health literacy score german native language significantly positively associated sus score usability testing based sus anticipates successful implementation app however patients easily adapt utilizing app exemplified participants older age study reported lower perceived usability research examine groups people identify exact problems operating app provide targeted solutions german clinical trials register world health organization trial registration data set drks00026659 httpstrialsearchwhointtrial2aspxtrialiddrks00026659