Questions | Group Answers | Frequency |
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1. How do you find medicine when you are sick? | Ask friend or relative to buy medicine at pharmacy or hospital | 42(1) |
Use Google and voice recognition mode on smartphone | 35(2) | |
Go to pharmacy or hospital myself | 28(3) | |
Use old prescribed medicine or home remedy | 19 | |
Find treatment information via website using a computer | 12 | |
2. Is it easy for visually-impaired people to use smart tools to find medicine? What makes it difficult for you to access the required medication? | Not easy. It is difficult to use smart tools | 43(1) |
Not easy. Websites delivering information with pictures are inaccessible | 42(1) | |
Not easy. Voice recognition mode from Google translates incorrectly and users are not familiar with medical terms | 32(1) | |
Difficult because I am not convinced by some data on the web | 26 | |
Not all the Google search results can be easily validated | 19 | |
Most Google search results are presented in English on foreign websites | 16 | |
Medicine information is different on each website | 12 | |
etc | 9 | |
3. Why do visually-impaired people not use pharmaceutical mobile applications on a smartphone? | Difficult to use | 48(1) |
Pharmaceutical information on applications hard to understand | 26(2) | |
My device has a low performance | 23(3) | |
The application does not support a disability mode | 14 | |
Not a smartphone owner/can’t afford it | 12 | |
Didn’t know about it | 8 | |
4. What would be a good solution for a future pharmaceutical mobile application? | A function that helps to find medicinal information easily and provides the appropriate information for primary treatment | 42(1) |
A function that explains self-preparation when sick | 39(2) | |
A function that navigates directly to the pharmacy, clinic or hospital with just one click | 37(3) | |
A function that explains the treatment steps and medicine administration | 37(1) | |
A function that records treatment information | 35 | |
A doctor appointment-reminder function | 35 | |
An application with disability mode support | 34 | |
etc | 9 |