Design of a Community Health Examination APP for Older Adults Based on Gross's Emotion Regulation Theory

TIAN Peicheng; LIU Ying; ZHENG Shenchenguang

doi:10.19554/j.cnki.1001-3563.2026.16.015

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Packaging Engineering ›› 2026, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (16) : 171-182. DOI: 10.19554/j.cnki.1001-3563.2026.16.015

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Design of a Community Health Examination APP for Older Adults Based on Gross's Emotion Regulation Theory

TIAN Peicheng, LIU Ying^*, ZHENG Shenchenguang

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The work aims to integrate Gross's emotion regulation theory to reconstruct the design logic of an age-friendly mobile APP to deal with the high cognitive load, process-related anxiety, and insufficient post-examination feedback commonly experienced by older adults in community-based free health examination services. Desk research and user interviews were first conducted to examine the complete service context of community health examinations for older adults. The PAD emotional model and a graphical emotion measurement approach were then employed to identify key negative emotional touchpoints before, during, and after the examination. On this basis, the functional architecture and interface strategies of the "Dr. Qingsong" APP were proposed from five dimensions: situation selection, situation modification, attentional deployment, cognitive change, and response modulation. The theoretical strategies were translated into a high-fidelity prototype and interaction flow of the "Dr. Qingsong" APP, and were preliminarily examined through a small-sample exploratory test involving 12 older adults. The results indicated that the proposed design showed a certain tendency toward reducing negative emotional arousal, improving task completion efficiency, and enhancing positive emotional experience. Introducing Gross's emotion regulation theory into age-friendly service design can help address the sources of anxiety experienced by older users in digital healthcare from a mechanism-oriented perspective, and provides methodological reference for the age-friendly transformation of grassroots smart healthcare products. However, the quantitative findings mainly serve to examine the feasibility of the proposed design approach and should not be interpreted as a broadly generalizable causal conclusion.

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Gross's emotion regulation theory / service design / health examination / community-dwelling older adults / age-friendly design / PAD emotional model

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TIAN Peicheng, LIU Ying, ZHENG Shenchenguang. Design of a Community Health Examination APP for Older Adults Based on Gross's Emotion Regulation Theory[J]. Packaging Engineering. 2026, 47(16): 171-182 https://doi.org/10.19554/j.cnki.1001-3563.2026.16.015

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