%0 Journal Article
%@ 2561-326X
%I JMIR Publications
%V 1
%N 1
%P e7
%T Identifying Asbestos-Containing Materials in Homes: Design and Development of the ACM Check Mobile Phone App
%A Govorko,Matthew Hayden
%A Fritschi,Lin
%A White,James
%A Reid,Alison
%+ School of Public Health, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Bentley, Perth, 6845, Australia, 61 8 9266 1361, alison.reid@curtin.edu.au
%K application development
%K asbestos
%K asbestos-containing materials
%K mobile phones
%K smartphone
%K residential environment
%K mobile applications
%K environment and public health
%D 2017
%7 14.12.2017
%9 Original Paper
%J JMIR Formativ Res
%G English
%X Background: Asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) can still be found in many homes in Australia and other countries. ACMs present a health risk when they are damaged or disturbed, such as during do-it-yourself home renovations. However, community members lack knowledge and awareness about asbestos identification and its safe management in residential settings. Objective: The objective of our study was to describe the process of developing a mobile phone app, ACM Check, that incorporates a questionnaire designed to identify and assess ACMs located in residential settings. Methods: A multidisciplinary team was involved in the formative development and creation of the mobile phone app. The formative development process comprised 6 steps: defining the scope of the app; conducting a comprehensive desktop review by searching online literature databases, as well as a wider online search for gray literature; drafting and revising the content, questionnaire, conditional branching rules, and scoring algorithms; obtaining expert input; manually pretesting the questionnaire; and formulating a final content document to be provided to the software development company. We then constructed ACM Check on the iOS platform for use in a validation study, and then updated the app, replicated it on Android, and released it to the public. Results: The ACM Check app identifies potential ACMs, prioritizes the materials based on their condition and likelihood of disturbance, and generates a summary report for each house assessed. Conclusions: ACM Check is an initiative to raise community members’ awareness of asbestos in the residential environment and also serves as a data collection tool for epidemiologic research. It can potentially be modified for implementation in other countries or used as the basis for the assessment of other occupational or environmental hazards. 
%M 30684427
%R 10.2196/formative.8370
%U http://formative.jmir.org/2017/1/e7/
%U https://doi.org/10.2196/formative.8370
%U http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30684427