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Perceptions on mobile health in the primary healthcare setting in Belgium.
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- Patient Engagement in a Hybrid Care Pathway for Hypertension: Not One Size Fits All.Journal of patient experience · 2024Article
- Exploring mHealth applications for self-management of chronic low back pain: A survey of features and benefits.Heliyon · 2023Review
- Developing Digital Therapeutics for Chronic Pain in Primary Care: A Qualitative Human-Centered Design Study of Providers' Motivations and Challenges.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Willingness of French General Practitioners to Prescribe mHealth Apps and Devices: Quantitative Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2022Article
- Patterns of digital information and communication technology use among patients at primary health care centres in Colombia: Phase I of the DIADA project.Revista Colombiana de psiquiatria · 2021Article
- LeishCareThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Article
- Barriers and Facilitators to the Adoption of Mobile Health Among Health Care Professionals From the United Kingdom: Discrete Choice Experiment.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Article
- Can mobile health apps replace GPs? A scoping review of comparisons between mobile apps and GP tasks.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2020Article
- Patient and physician perspectives on the use and outcome measures of mHealth apps: Exploratory survey and focus group study.Digital healthArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThe purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of the adult general population and family physicians in Belgium regarding the use of mobile health applications (apps) in primary care.
methodsAn online survey composed of multiple-choice questions was administered to the participants. Specific questionnaires for physician and non-physician respondents were used.
resultsOne hundred and eleven adult participants from the general population and 23 family physicians completed the survey. In the general population, 41% selected "general health check-ups" as their preferred implementation of mobile health. Among family physicians, 17% preferred to implement mobile health in the first place for the monitoring of chronically ill patients and 17% for the monitoring of recently hospitalised patients.
conclusionsResistance to mobile health services persists in the general population and among family physicians. The quality of the apps and the impersonal nature of the contact are major issue in the future use of mobile health applications.
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