Assessing the efficacy of an educational program on the tech-savviness of people with chronic obstructive pumonary disease (COPD) - utilising the digital age.

Participants allocated to the experimental group will receive practical ‘hands-on’ guidance on how to download a 'Steps app' onto their own smartphone and be able to use the app. The education session will be divided into sub-components of each of the following tasks: 'downloading Steps app', 'opening the Steps app', 'using the Steps app', 'refreshing the screen' and 'closing the app'. During the appointment, the investigator (PhD student) will ask the participant to complete an assessment package, which will comprise a set of predefined tasks, such as downloading the app. Before commencing the assessment package the participant is asked to rate their perceived confidence of completing the task on a 0-10 visual analogue scale. Opening the app, using the app. Refreshing the screen and closing the app. Each task will be broken down into ‘checking for WiFi connection’, ‘connecting to WiFi’, ‘finding the app store’, ‘browsing the app store and locating the Steps app’, and ‘downloading the app’. Once the Steps app is downloaded the participant is required to navigate the app, by registering themselves in the app, locate where the 'step count' is recorded and how to access 'history'of previous days step counts. Participants will be asked to ‘think out aloud’ as they move through the steps required to complete each sub-component. The participant will be permitted to move to the next task only once they meet ‘completion criteria’, defined as; (i) they complete all sub-components of the task correctly or, (ii) they state that they are unable to complete one or more sub-components of the task, despite attempting to do so. The learning model used for the participants in the experimental group is for acquiring practical skills of ‘show one, do one and teach one’ will be used. This will be approximately 30 minutes of one-on-one education session and there is no time limit on these education sessions. All education sessions will be administered by a the PhD candiate who is an investigator and a physiotherapist. All sessions will take place at the private room at medical consulting rooms of a Respiratory Consultant who is a co-investigator. The education session will be developed from data from a previous observation study where different participants will be asked to comment on facilitators and barriers to downloading and using the Steps app. The participants from control and experimental will take home a Summary of downloading Steps app as a pamphlet and also will be encouraged to record their step amount from the app onto a daily diary given to each participant. The goal of the recording is not about the actual amount of steps done though a record of how often they are engaging with the Steps app.