TY  - JOUR
AU  - Duan, Beibei
AU  - Liu, Zhe
AU  - Liu, Weiwei
AU  - Gou, Baohua
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/7/8
TI  - Assessing the Views and Needs of People at High Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus for the Development of Mobile Health Apps: Descriptive Qualitative Study
JO  - JMIR Form Res
SP  - e36392
VL  - 6
IS  - 7
KW  - gestational diabetes mellitus
KW  - high-risk groups
KW  - mobile health
KW  - mHealth
KW  - applications
KW  - user-centered design
KW  - qualitative research
AB  - Background: Early prevention of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) can reduce the incidence of not only GDM, but also adverse perinatal pregnancy outcomes. Moreover, it is of great significance to prevent or reduce the occurrence of type 2 diabetes. Mobile health (mHealth) apps can help pregnant women effectively prevent GDM by providing risk prediction, lifestyle support, peer support, professional support, and other functions. Before designing mHealth apps, developers must understand the views and needs of pregnant women, and closely combine users’ needs to develop app functions, in order to better improve user experience and increase the usage rate of these apps in the future. Objective: The objective of this study was to understand the views of the high-risk population of gestational diabetes mellitus on the development of mobile health apps and the demand for app functions, so as to provide a basis for the development of gestational diabetes mellitus prevention apps. Methods: Fifteen pregnant women with at least one risk factor for gestational diabetes were recruited from July to September 2021, and were interviewed via a semistructured interview using the purpose sampling method. The transcribed data were analyzed by the traditional content analysis method, and themes were extracted. Results: Respondents wanted to develop user-friendly and fully functional mobile apps for the prevention of gestational diabetes mellitus. Pregnant women's requirements for app function development include: personalized customization, accurate information support, interactive design, practical tool support, visual presentation, convenient professional support, peer support, reasonable reminder function, appropriate maternal and infant auxiliary function, and differentiated incentive function.These function settings can encourage pregnant women to improve or maintain healthy living habits during their use of the app Conclusions: This study discusses the functional requirements of target users for gestational diabetes mellitus prevention apps, which can provide reference for the development of future applications. 
SN  - 2561-326X
UR  - https://formative.jmir.org/2022/7/e36392
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2196/36392
UR  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35802414
DO  - 10.2196/36392
ID  - info:doi/10.2196/36392
ER  -