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Blood Pressure Concerns: Findings from a Usability Study of Culturally Infused mHealth Design

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High blood pressure BP (i.e., hypertension) is a chronic condition and risk factor for cardiovascular disease, stroke, and heart failure, occurring in populations across the globe. Currently, smart phones and applications are developing rapidly, and mobile health applications are being used to manage hypertension. The goal of this study was to understand the usability findings from an iterative cross-cultural mHealth application to identify the perceived usefulness among African migrant adopters in Maryland, United States. Qualitative and quantitative statistical method were used to collect participants’ data. Usability findings reported that the behavioral intention of using the recommended features was influenced by the perceived usefulness of the AfriBP. The cultural dimensions were rated as the most preferred recommended features, followed by the health management feature. The perceived usefulness had a strong significant effect on attitude in adopting the AfriBP. Female participants adopted the AfriBP more than the male participants. The results regarding ethnicity found that the Nigerian participants considered the perceived usefulness of the AfriBP more than the Ghanaian participants. Few participants owned and or publicly used BP machines to monitor their BP. Few number of participants were less likely to use a smartphone health application to monitor their BP for health. The health status of the participants for BP readings and body mass index (BMI) was of great concern which supported prior research on Africans ancestry having the highest concern for BP.

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  • 16 June 2022

    In an older version of this paper, there were several errors, which now have been corrected. On page 300, the explanation at the end of the page erroneously referred to “Fig. 2”. This was corrected to “Fig. 1”. On page 303, a sentence was expanded and corrected from “Participants usage of the Apple Health App were 12%, Samsung Health App for BP, and 72% were not utilizing the health app for BP” to “Participants usage of the Apple Health App for BP were 12%, Samsung Health App for BP were 16%, and 72% were not utilizing the health app for BP”. This has been corrected.

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Oladapo, H., Chakraborty, J. (2022). Blood Pressure Concerns: Findings from a Usability Study of Culturally Infused mHealth Design. In: Antona, M., Stephanidis, C. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Novel Design Approaches and Technologies. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13308. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05028-2_20

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