Development of SkinTracker, an integrated dermatology mobile app and web portal enabling remote clinical research studies

作者：Joy Q. Jin, Julie A. Hong, Kareem G. Elhage, Mitchell Braun, Riley K. Spencer, Mimi Chung, Samuel Yeroushalmi, Edward Hadeler, Megan Mosca, Erin Bartholomew, Marwa Hakimi, Mitchell S. Davis, Quinn Thibodeaux, David Wu, Abhilash Kahlon, Paul Dhaliwal, Erin F. Mathes, Navdeep Dhaliwal, Tina Bhutani, Wilson Liao · 发表于：Frontiers in Digital Health · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.3389/fdgth.2023.1228503 · 被引用次数：8 · 研究领域：Dermatology and Skin Diseases、Mobile Health and mHealth Applications、Digital Mental Health Interventions

Introduction: In-person dermatology clinical research studies often face recruitment and participation challenges due to travel-, time-, and cost-associated barriers. Studies incorporating virtual/asynchronous formats can potentially enhance research subject participation and satisfaction, but few mobile health tools are available to enable remote study conduct. We developed SkinTracker, a patient-facing mobile app and researcher-facing web platform, that enables longitudinal collection of skin photos, patient reported outcomes, and biometric health and environmental data. Methods: Eight design thinking sessions including dermatologists, clinical research staff, software engineers, and graphic designers were held to create the components of SkinTracker. Following iterative prototyping, SkinTracker was piloted across six adult and four pediatric subjects with atopic dermatitis (AD) of varying severity levels to test and provide feedback on SkinTracker for six months. Results: The SkinTracker app enables collection of informed consent for study participation, baseline medical history, standardized skin photographs, patient-reported outcomes (e.g., Patient Oriented Eczema Measure (POEM), Pruritus Numerical Rating Scale (NRS), Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI)), medication use, adverse events, voice diary to document qualitative experiences, chat function for communication with research team, environmental and biometric data such as exercise and sleep metrics through integrat...