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Mobile health apps are an effective awareness tool. A user-centred study reported that an ideal awareness app should have the following functional components, (1) information, (2) communication, (3) feedback, and (4) personalized setting. The purpose of this study is to conduct a review of the existing antibiotic-related apps and to compare their functionality. The existing apps were selected from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store, the two major mobile application stores. In total, the search resulted in 1333 apps. After removal of duplicates and discrete viewing, the number of apps was narrowed down to 285 apps. By applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, only 5 apps were included in the final reviews. Our findings also showed that none of the apps contained all the functionality components that were identified in the user-centred study. As there is still no specific app designed to promote awareness about antibiotic resistance, a user-centred antibiotic resistance awareness app is imperative.
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This study is supported by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) under GGPM grant (GGPM-2017-073).
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Mohamad, U.H. (2019). Comparison of User-Centered Design Antibiotic Resistance Awareness App to Existing Antibiotic-Related Mobile Applications. In: Badioze Zaman, H., et al. Advances in Visual Informatics. IVIC 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11870. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34032-2_8
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