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