Interventions : BMI Calculator

  You're not getting the same kind of information. Not all the functions and the capabilities of the app were available to us. So with that, let's take a look at the app itself. I spoke about our collaborators, and again we wanted to recognize them in the app. This is an information page on the app.

Once the user downloads the app from the Apple app store,it opens to a disclaimer page and the user has to agree to the terms of use, privacy and security to go forward. Then they never see that page again,but they can find information on it again on the iPage. Building healthy survivorship really did take a village. We engaged with a great number of collaborators,both in developing as we continue to disseminate the AYA app. I think that all of these groups deserve,and continue to deserve a lot of credit. Many of their materials were used throughout the app. This is the homepage,the screen shot of the home page if you will of the app.

So it shows the iPhone functions, and health,which kind of gives the user guidance on how to use the app,the survivorship assessment, screening and late effects, survivorship planning tool sand tips and community. We've spent a lot of time on the look and the feel of the app. We really wanted to have a clean, modern image. Our advisory groups weighed in on almost every element,what the functions would be,what the icon looked like, what colors were used. We really wanted the assessment questions to be user friendly,unlike some of the health assessments that you might see in a hospital or any kind of clinic. We want it to be something that the users would actually engage in and think about. We built the app in about 80 days.

For the most part, we would build one section at a time, send it out, test it,play with it, us it, make adjustments,and then go onto the next section. I think that my having a software development background helped immensely, and being able to make the trade-offs and negotiate among what the AYA survivors told us they wanted,what the advisors and oncologists thought we should do, the opinions and suggestion sof the graphic designer,and the technology co-developers who worked with us.

It was constant conversation. I'm going to skip this one and come back to it. So these are some screen shots of three of the app areas.

The health assessment,you'll notice that there are different icons in the upper corner. So there was an icon for well being,there was an icon for healthy habits,one for healthy diet and physical activity. Healthy habits,we consider things like not smoking,not binge drinking;achieving energy balance,things like that. In the healthy diet connection and healthy diet group of questions, I think there area bout 27-30 questions overall. We provided a BMI calculator. As an example of the kind of discussions we had,the technology group wanted to show a little figure in the results that would shrink or swell based on the user's BMI.