Development of Personal Wellness Information Model for Pervasive Healthcare
Table 1
Focus group meetings.
Group
Duration
Participants
Focus
Group 1
2 meetings, 4 hours each
Young, healthy department staff members, open voluntary call to our department’s mailing list (5 and 4 participants)
Identify and describe basic concepts of personal wellness
Group 2
1 meeting, 2 hours
Internal project meeting (4 participants)
Specification of concepts, redundancy reduction, and abstraction levels
Group 3
1 meeting, 2 hours
Our university’s health informatics postgraduate students (5 participants)
Concept specification and categorization and external contexts
Group 4
2 meetings, 2 hours each
Females aged 48–62 (9 and 10 participants); group was formed on a voluntary basis by sending invitations to participants in another well-being-related study
Discussion about participants’ views on personal wellness in general and then our models in more detail