Published on in Vol 8, No 4 (2020): April

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/15780, first published .
The Development of a Mobile Health App for Breast Cancer Self-Management Support in Taiwan: Design Thinking Approach

The Development of a Mobile Health App for Breast Cancer Self-Management Support in Taiwan: Design Thinking Approach

The Development of a Mobile Health App for Breast Cancer Self-Management Support in Taiwan: Design Thinking Approach

I-Ching Hou   1 * , RN, PhD ;   Min-Fang Lan   2, 3 * , RN, MSc ;   Shan-Hsiang Shen   4 , PhD ;   Pei Yu Tsai   1, 3 , MSc ;   King Jen Chang   5 , MD, PhD ;   Hao-Chih Tai   6, 7 , MD, PhD ;   Ay-Jen Tsai   5 , MSc ;   Polun Chang   2 , PhD ;   Tze-Fang Wang   1 , RN, MSN ;   Shuh-Jen Sheu   1 , RN, PhD ;   Patricia C Dykes   8, 9 , RN, PhD

1 School of Nursing, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

2 Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

3 Department of Nursing, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

4 Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

5 Taiwan Breast Cancer Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan

6 Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

7 Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

8 Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

9 Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

*these authors contributed equally

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