Safe Patient Handling Musculoskeletal Injury-Prevention Smartphone App for Community Health Care Workers: Mixed Methods Feasibility Study
This study met its objectives, highlighting the SPH MSIP app's potential to address community health care workers' unmet safe patient handling needs and improve support in real time patient handling scenarios. While the findings suggest strong feasibility and acceptability, future research should focus on large-scale, extended effectiveness trials to evaluate the app's impact on reducing musculoskeletal injury rates and improving patient care outcomes.
Authors
- Ryan E. Rhodes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0940-9040)
- Sarah Burrell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0126-9573)
- Alfred Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8837-7085)
- Sandy Courtnall
- Shelly Wake
Institutions
- Island Health (CA)
- University of Victoria (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JMIR Formative Research
- Published
- 2025-09-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2196/70681
- Primary Topic
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00