ArticleThe World Allergy Organization journal2021
How are patients with chronic urticaria interested in using information and communication technologies to guide their healthcare? A UCARE study.
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- Integrating Technology into Urticaria Management: Telemedicine, Remote Monitoring and Patient-Centered Care.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- Acceptance and perceived usefulness of digital health services in the management of chronic urticaria: a survey of patients and physicians.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- How accurate are ChatGPT-4 responses in chronic urticaria? A critical analysis with information quality metrics.The World Allergy Organization journal · 2025Article
- CRUSEClinical and translational allergy · 2024Article
- A Patient Charter for Chronic Urticaria.Advances in therapy · 2024Article
- Reinventing the wheal: A review of online misinformation and conspiracy theories in urticaria.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2023Review
- Urticaria.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2022Review
- Chronic urticaria patients are interested in apps to monitor their disease activity and control: A UCARE CURICT analysis.Clinical and translational allergy · 2021Article
- Social Media and Urticaria - A Data Audit of FacebookIndian journal of dermatologyArticle
- Diagnosis and Management of Urticaria in Indian Settings: Skin Allergy Research Society's Guideline-2022.Indian journal of dermatologyArticle
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Abstract
backgroundPatients with chronic urticaria (CU) are increasingly using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to manage their health. What CU patients expect from ICTs and which ICTs they prefer remains unknown. We assessed why CU patients use ICTs, which ones they prefer, and what drives their expectations and choices.
methodsIn this cross-sectional study, 1841 patients across 17 countries were recruited at UCAREs (Urticaria Centers of Reference and Excellence). Patients with CU who were >12 years old completed a 23-item questionnaire.
resultsMost patients were interested in receiving disease information (87.3%), asking physicians about CU (84.1%), and communicating with other patients through ICTs (65.6%). For receiving disease information, patients preferred one-to-one and one-to-many ICTs, especially web browsers. One-to-one ICTs were also the ICTs of choice for asking physicians about urticaria and for communicating with other patients, and e-mail and WhatsApp were the preferred ICTs, respectively. Many-to-many ICTs such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter were least preferred for all 3 purposes. Living in rural areas and higher education were linked to higher odds of being interested in receiving disease information, asking physicians, and communicating with patients through ICTs.
conclusionsMost patients and especially patients with higher education who live in rural areas are interested in using ICTs for their healthcare, but prefer different ICTs for different purposes, ie, web browsers for obtaining information, e-mail for asking physicians, and WhatsApp for communicating with other patients. Our findings may help to improve ICTs for CU.
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