I'm cracking my brain, trying to think of a more creative way to track progress with HCV. I want to make it fun and exciting. A bar that levels up each week is encouraging, especially when you see that you're 90% there....but it seems too simple. I spent a good amount of time searching through other apps, looking at how they track progress, however, most of the apps that I came across were weight loss or something that wasn't disease oriented. If I wanted to be creative, I'd have to do it on my own.
Maybe we could do a boardgame style tracker that moves the patient's piece up a tile every week? But, is that any more encouraging than the bar that levels up? I'm not too sure....
Another idea was to create a chart, similar to something that children use in grade school, with each week numbered 1-48 and having columns for taking meds, tracking symptoms, and going to doctor's visits. However, it's still not accomplishing what I want because that's why we have the report card...
By exploring other options, I'm now sure that the stepping stone and the bar tracker is the best way of tracking progress. These are the different ways that we'll track progress in our app:
- Bar Tracker: increases until full, showing % complete
- SVR: Displays viral load based on week; quick info in a glance
- Report Card: Computed daily based on meds taken, symptoms tracked, health, etc
- Stepping Stone: Hidden in "My Status" with 5 tiers for creating a profile, pretreatment, treatment, posttreatment, and cure. The steps will be called levels and a notification will pop up saying..."congratulations! you are now on Level 2: Pre-treatment."
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