Usability of a safety & health app-based educational and hazards reporting tool for students in Universiti Putra Malaysia

SHOLIKHIN, MUHAMMAD EIZZAT HILMI (2020) Usability of a safety & health app-based educational and hazards reporting tool for students in Universiti Putra Malaysia. [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Introduction: In the Higher Educational Institutional setting, effective delivery of safety and health information by the university directly influences student awareness, knowledge, attitude and practices. Even if the students can identify or assess the risk, to a certain extent, they mostly do not know how to make a report or whom to report to. Objective: To determine the usability of a mobile application which serves as an educational tool for safety and health for the students and concurrently provide a platform for reporting hazards to the management of the university. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted between May to June 2020, where convenience sampling was applied. A total of 151 respondents from five different faculties in UPM voluntarily participated in this study. A custom-built mobile app was developed to provide the respondents on the foundation of knowledge in safety and health and reporting hazards. It also serves as an instrument to collect sociodemographic information and usability via questionnaire embedded within the app. Socio-demographic information was collected during the registration process. The adapted PSSUQ are presented after respondents have completed and submitted at least one report of hazards within the mobile app. Result & Discussion: The results showed the majority of respondents were, female (54.3%), 23 years old (45.7%), Malay (90.1%) and students from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (42.4%). In terms of the usability, majority of the respondents (62.46%) strongly agreed that the app is easy to use, the information is well organised and, has an attractive interface. There was no association between all socio-demographic factors and the usability of the app, except for gender with interface quality (r = -0.222, p< 0.05). Significant association were also found between faculty and information quality (r = 0.185, p< 0.05), interface quality (r = 0.374, p< 0.05), and overall usability (r = 0.202, p< 0.05) respectively. Conclusion: In conclusion, the safety and health educational tool and hazard reporting tool has the potential to deliver the intended objective of educating students on basic safety and health knowledge and ease students in reporting hazards around campus. The app was shown to possess a good usability. However, there always have a room for improvement in this study. Keywords: Usability, safety and health, mobile application, reporting

Item Type:	Project Paper
Faculty:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Science
Depositing User:	Mr Hafizzuddin Hamidon
Date Deposited:	24 Aug 2023 02:34
Last Modified:	24 Aug 2023 02:34
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/889

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