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Access to mobile phone and willingness to receive mHealth services among patients with diabetes in Northwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study.
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- Developing a COVID-19-focused mHealth system in a low-resource setting during the COVID-19 pandemic: challenges and opportunities.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Article
- Intention to Use Mobile-Based Partograph and Its Predictors Among Obstetric Health Care Providers Working at Public Referral Hospitals in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia in 2022: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study.Online journal of public health informatics · 2024Article
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- Implementation Science Perspectives on Implementing Telemedicine Interventions for Hypertension or Diabetes Management: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- Perception, willingness, and practices of telemedicine in patients with chronic diseases: implication of digital health in patients' perspective at a tertiary care hospital in Ethiopia.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Willingness to Receive mHealth Services Among Patients with Diabetes on Chronic Follow-up in Public Hospitals in Eastern Ethiopia: Multicenter Mixed-Method Study.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2023Article
- Willingness to Receive mHealth Messages Among Diabetic Patients at Mizan Tepi University Teaching Hospital: Implications for Digital Health.Patient preference and adherence · 2022Article
- Smartphone and application use in self-management of chronic kidney disease: a cross-sectional feasibility study.Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina · 2022Article
- The potential use of digital health technologies in the African context: a systematic review of evidence from Ethiopia.NPJ digital medicine · 2021Review
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- Mothers intention and preference to use mobile phone text message reminders for child vaccination in Northwest Ethiopia.BMJ health & care informatics · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesThis study aimed at determining access to mobile phone and willingness to receive mobile phone-based diabetes health services as well as identify associated factors in Northwest Ethiopia.
designAn institution-based cross-sectional survey was conducted from February to March 2016.
participantsSystematic randomly selected 423 patients with diabetes.
settingUniversity of Gondar Hospital diabetic clinic.
main outcome measuresThe main outcome measure was willingness to receive diabetic health service via mobile phone voice call or messaging services.
resultsOut of 423 patients with diabetes, 329 (77.8%) had access to a mobile phone. Among the latter, 232 (70.5%) were willing to receive mobile phone-based health services. The educational status of patients (adjusted OR (AOR): 2.6 (95% CI: 1.2 to 5.58)), route of medication (AOR: 3.2 (95% CI: 1.44 to 7.1)), transportation mechanism (AOR: 4.1 (95% CI: 1.2 to 13.57)), travel time to health facility (AOR: 0.3 (95% CI: 0.12 to 0.82)), current use of mobile phone as appointment reminder (AOR: 2.6 (95% CI: 1.07 to 6.49)) and locking mobile phone with passwords (AOR: 4.6 (95% CI: 1.63 to 12.95)) were significantly associated with the willingness to receive mobile phone-based diabetic health services.
conclusionAccess to a mobile phone and willingness to receive mobile phone-based health services were high. Educational status, route of medication, transportation mechanism, time to reach the service, using mobile phone as appointment reminder and locking mobile phone with passwords were significantly associated factors. Given the high proportion of access and willingness of patients to receive mobile phone-based health services, mHealth interventions could be helpful.
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