With the development of mobile devices, applications that have become widely used have
also affected the provision of healthcare services. Efficient and fast applications that
can be used by healthcare professionals as well as patients have begun to be developed.
This has been shaped in different aspects by information and time management,
calculations, communication, consultancy, electronic health record, patient management
and monitoring, medical education and training, decision support system, reference and
search for updated information.
There are many studies on physicians' use of mHealth applications. However, each clinic
and each medical branch will have different expectations from mHealth applications. The
investigators do not know the applications used by physicians participating in pediatric
patient management in our country, their expectations from these applications, and their
solutions. The investigators aim to learn the perceptions, expectations and experiences
of physicians involved in pediatric patient management in Turkey about mHealth
applications, and thus to guide future mHealth applications from the perspective of child
health and diseases.
An online survey will be used as a data collection tool in our research. The online
survey method was preferred in order to keep the research population and sample wide.
Our survey will consist of four sections and a total of 28 questions. Survey questions
were derived by reviewing previous studies and national clinical experience. In the pilot
study, 10 clinicians were asked to complete the survey. Feedback was received on the
operation, duration, structure and readability of the questions of the survey. To ensure
content validity and reliability, our survey was revised after the ethics committee
evaluation and feedback given through the pilot application.
The first part was about physicians' basic demographic data and mobile device usage.
Clinicians' perceptions regarding mHealth application usage were evaluated in the second
section, their experiences were evaluated in the third section, and their expectations
were evaluated in the fourth section. Those who did not agree to participate in the
survey were asked a multiple-choice question asking why. Multiple choice, ranking,
five-point Likert scale, and free text (age, etc.) questions were used in the survey.
Additionally, in order to increase the reliability of the survey, some control questions
were designed as negative-positive questions.
Our study will be reported in accordance with the CROSS (A Consensus-Based Checklist for
Reporting of Survey Studies) guideline.