Over the course of this study, user involvement led to the widening of the scope of the website and alerted the project group to shortcomings regarding content, language, presentation, and usability.
The GPs highly valued simple information presentation and usability, which were incorporated into the prompts, but many also suggested adding a range of additional features to prompts (e.g. local service information, medication information).
Adapting P3P required in-depth evaluation of the intervention content, presentation, and technical usability by Spanish-speaking users.
A portal developer will be able to concentrate on some other aspects that concern presentation, such as portal usability and functionality.
An Acceptability Survey asked participants about the quality, relevance, presentation, perceived usefulness, and usability of the learning materials.
This confirmed that the ground work done in Phase 1 around content had been successful, but that greater emphasis was needed on usability and presentation issues.
Rebecca Say holds a Doctoral Research Fellowship from the National Institute of Health Research to undertake a PhD study 'Engaging women in shared decision making about breech presentation at term: development, usability testing and a pilot trial of a patient decision aid and decision quality instrument'.
The majority of comments about CE were concerned with the usability of the presentation of the content.
The themes were used to refine and adapt the original prompts, and led to the addition of features such as: printable patient information sheets; increased choice over information viewed; the option to cancel prompts; tailoring advice to patient characteristics; clearer information presentation, and other improvements to usability.
Previous research has indicated that method of text presentation has a significant impact on usability.
