Mobile Phone Ownership, Health Apps, and Tablet Use in US Adults With a Self-Reported History of Hypertension: Cross-Sectional Study

Langford, Aisha T.; Solid, Craig A.; Scott, Ebony; Lad, Meeki; Maayan, Eli; Williams, Stephen; Seixas, Azizi

doi:10.2196/12228

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“…Despite the huge variety of apps for hypertension management and the increasing use of smartphones and tablets, according to a recent US survey, m-health apps seem to be used less among people with self-reported history of hypertension (54). According to the data collected by Langford et al in 3,285 respondents, of which 1,460 reporting a history of hypertension, tablet or smartphone ownership was significantly ( p <0.001) lower in participants with (55% and 66%) than in those without hypertension (86% and 68%).…”

Section: M-healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Connected Health in Hypertension Management

Omboni

2019

Front. Cardiovasc. Med.

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e-health is defined as the use of communication and information technologies (ICT) to manage patients and their health in a more efficient way, with the aim of improving the overall quality of care. Healthcare services relying on telehealth (or telemedicine) and mobile health (m-health) are the most popular e-health tools used by healthcare professionals and consumers. These applications allow the exchange of medical data between patients and their doctors or among healthcare professionals, mainly through the Internet, and are used to provide healthcare services remotely (so-called “ connected health ”). The most popular telemedicine application in the field of hypertension is blood pressure telemonitoring (BPT), which enables transmission of BP and various clinical information from patients' homes or from the community to the doctor's surgery or the hospital. Numerous randomized controlled trials have documented a significant BP reduction combined with an intensification and optimization of the use of antihypertensive medications in patients making use of BPT plus remote counseling by a case manager, with the supervision of a doctor or a community pharmacist (telepharmacy). The major benefits of BPT are usually observed in high-risk patients. BPT can also be based on m-health wireless solutions, provided with educational support, medication trackers and reminders, and teleconsultation. In this context, BPT may favor patient's self-management, as an adjunct to the doctor's intervention, and foster patient's participation in medical decision making, with consequent improvement in BP control and increase in medication adherence. In conclusion, e-health solutions, and in particular telemedicine, are increasingly attaining a key position in the management of the hypertensive patient, with an enormous potential in terms of improvement of the quality of the delivered care, increase in the chance of a successful BP control and effective prevention of cardiovascular diseases.

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Section: M-healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Connected Health in Hypertension Management

Omboni

2019

Front. Cardiovasc. Med.

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“…[32,33,34] Regardless, wearable device may still be a hopeful tool for those subsets of population that likes to engage technology-based strategy for managing their health. [35] Further, our findings suggest that those with diabetes are approachable and are willing to communicate findings from their wearable tools with their clinicians. Although only 1 in 5 respondents with diabetes used a wearable device, we found that 4 in 5 of wearable users were willing to share information from these tools with their healthcare provider.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 76%

Use of Wearable Device among Adults in the US with Self-reported Diabetes Mellitus: An Analysis of the 2019 Health Information National Trends Survey

Kekere¹,

Onyeaka²,

Fatoki³

et al. 2020

JPAR

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Objective: To evaluate the prevalence, patterns, and sociodemographic predictors of wearable device use among individuals with self-reported diabetes mellitus. Methods: Data for our analysis was drawn from cycle 3 (2019) of the 5th edition of the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS 5). Descriptive statistics were used to evaluate the demographic characteristics, prevalence, and frequency of wearable device use among individuals with diabetes mellitus. Multivariable logistic regression was used to identify the sociodemographic predictors of wearable device use. Results: We identified 1149 individuals who self-reported diabetes mellitus. Of these, 51.2% were females, 59.3% were white, and 51.6% had less than a college education. The prevalence of wearable device use was 20%. Further, a sizable proportion (86.1%) of the wearable device users were willing to share information from their wearable devices with their healthcare provider, and almost half of them (43.4%) reported daily use of these devices in the past 1-month. Significant sociodemographic predictors of wearable device use include age, income, and level of education. Conclusion: Our results highlight the feasibility and acceptability of using wearable devices to deliver evidence-based health care to individuals with diabetes. Future interventions should consider the scalability of these tools and how to reach those subgroups of individuals with diabetes mellitus to whom current technologies may be unavailable.

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“…The utility of these services for patients who are resistant to the idea of telemedicine or lack the resources necessary to partake in videoconferencing is less clear. Cellular devices with functioning cameras are nearly ubiquitous across our society, 25 but the added patient SPECIAL TESTS:…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Shoulder Telehealth Assessment Tool in Transition to Distance Orthopedics

Sprowls

Brown

Robin

2020

Arthroscopy Techniques

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The role of telehealth in orthopedic surgery is rapidly expanding, a movement largely brought about by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Virtual clinic encounters using a video chat platform or a simple telephone call offer the patient and surgeon numerous advantages that are now better appreciated by the orthopedic community at large. However, barriers to effective patient evaluation exist, and a successful patient assessment is highly dependent on technique. In particular, performing a shoulder physical examination during a virtual encounter poses many obstacles. We present a technique to complete a patient-led, comprehensive shoulder physical examination using an easy-to-understand pictorial guide called the Shoulder Telehealth Assessment Tool (STAT). A STAT form is provided to the patient and designed to be completed at home without the real-time instruction of a provider, before the virtual encounter. Parameters include assessments of all planes of shoulder range of motion, visual analog scale (VAS) and Single Assessment Numeric Evaluation (SANE) scores, and the components necessary to allow for conversion to an abbreviated Constant shoulder score if the provider so desires.

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Mobile Phone Ownership, Health Apps, and Tablet Use in US Adults With a Self-Reported History of Hypertension: Cross-Sectional Study

Cited by 47 publications

References 36 publications

Connected Health in Hypertension Management

Connected Health in Hypertension Management

Use of Wearable Device among Adults in the US with Self-reported Diabetes Mellitus: An Analysis of the 2019 Health Information National Trends Survey

The Shoulder Telehealth Assessment Tool in Transition to Distance Orthopedics

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