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The use of mobile phone functionalities by patients with asthma and their desire to use for self-care purposes

BACKGROUND: Mobile health (mHealth) has good potential for promoting self-care in patients suffering from chronic diseases. The patients' positive attitude toward this technology is a key factor for the successful implementation. The present study was conducted to investigate the asthma patient...

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Autores principales: Nabovati, Ehsan, Farzandipour, Mehrdad, Heidarzadeh Arani, Marzieh, Akbari, Hossein, Sharif, Reihane, Anvari, Shima
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7602318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33126888
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-020-01301-z
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author Nabovati, Ehsan
Farzandipour, Mehrdad
Heidarzadeh Arani, Marzieh
Akbari, Hossein
Sharif, Reihane
Anvari, Shima
author_facet Nabovati, Ehsan
Farzandipour, Mehrdad
Heidarzadeh Arani, Marzieh
Akbari, Hossein
Sharif, Reihane
Anvari, Shima
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description BACKGROUND: Mobile health (mHealth) has good potential for promoting self-care in patients suffering from chronic diseases. The patients' positive attitude toward this technology is a key factor for the successful implementation. The present study was conducted to investigate the asthma patients' use of mobile phone functionalities and their desire to receive self-care services through this technology. METHODS: This survey study was conducted in Iran in 2018. The study population consisted of 146 patients suffering from asthma. The data collection tool was a questionnaire containing items on the demographic characteristics of patients, current use of mobile phone functionalities, and desire to use them for receiving self-care services. Data were analyzed using descriptive and analytical statistics. RESULTS: Out of the 160 questionnaires distributed, 146 (91.25%) were completed. The majority of the participants had smartphones (84.9%). Less than half of the participants occasionally used mobile phone functionalities including mobile phone calls (42.5%) and mobile Internet (40.4%) to receive asthma-related information. A significant number of the participants had never used smartphone applications (72.6%) and E-mail (66.4%) to receive asthma-related information. The participants had their greatest use of Internet search, followed by social media, to receive information about asthma symptoms, allergenic and irritating substances, medicinal therapy, and how to use therapy aids. The participants were most willing to use social media for receiving asthma information, communicating with other patients, receiving reminders about doctor's appointment, and receiving warnings about the lack of asthma control. CONCLUSION: In Iran as a developing country, asthma patients use Internet search mostly to receive instructional information and are willing to use social media rather than other mobile phone functionalities to receive self-care services. These patients believe that mobile phones are appropriate for receiving instructional information and reminders.
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spelling pubmed-76023182020-11-02 The use of mobile phone functionalities by patients with asthma and their desire to use for self-care purposes Nabovati, Ehsan Farzandipour, Mehrdad Heidarzadeh Arani, Marzieh Akbari, Hossein Sharif, Reihane Anvari, Shima BMC Med Inform Decis Mak Research Article BACKGROUND: Mobile health (mHealth) has good potential for promoting self-care in patients suffering from chronic diseases. The patients' positive attitude toward this technology is a key factor for the successful implementation. The present study was conducted to investigate the asthma patients' use of mobile phone functionalities and their desire to receive self-care services through this technology. METHODS: This survey study was conducted in Iran in 2018. The study population consisted of 146 patients suffering from asthma. The data collection tool was a questionnaire containing items on the demographic characteristics of patients, current use of mobile phone functionalities, and desire to use them for receiving self-care services. Data were analyzed using descriptive and analytical statistics. RESULTS: Out of the 160 questionnaires distributed, 146 (91.25%) were completed. The majority of the participants had smartphones (84.9%). Less than half of the participants occasionally used mobile phone functionalities including mobile phone calls (42.5%) and mobile Internet (40.4%) to receive asthma-related information. A significant number of the participants had never used smartphone applications (72.6%) and E-mail (66.4%) to receive asthma-related information. The participants had their greatest use of Internet search, followed by social media, to receive information about asthma symptoms, allergenic and irritating substances, medicinal therapy, and how to use therapy aids. The participants were most willing to use social media for receiving asthma information, communicating with other patients, receiving reminders about doctor's appointment, and receiving warnings about the lack of asthma control. CONCLUSION: In Iran as a developing country, asthma patients use Internet search mostly to receive instructional information and are willing to use social media rather than other mobile phone functionalities to receive self-care services. These patients believe that mobile phones are appropriate for receiving instructional information and reminders. BioMed Central 2020-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7602318/ /pubmed/33126888 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-020-01301-z Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Nabovati, Ehsan
Farzandipour, Mehrdad
Heidarzadeh Arani, Marzieh
Akbari, Hossein
Sharif, Reihane
Anvari, Shima
The use of mobile phone functionalities by patients with asthma and their desire to use for self-care purposes
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title_short The use of mobile phone functionalities by patients with asthma and their desire to use for self-care purposes
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7602318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33126888
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-020-01301-z
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