Mobile app activity engagement by cancer patients and their caregivers informs remote monitoring.

ABSTRACT: Mobile phone applications ("apps") are potentially an effective, low-burden method to collect patient-reported outcomes outside the clinical setting. Using such apps consistently and in a timely way is critical for complete and accurate data capture, but no studies of concurrent reporting by cancer patient-caregiver dyads have been published in the peer-reviewed literature. This study assessed app engagement, defined as adherence, timing, and attrition with two smartphone applications, one for adult cancer patients and one for their informal caregivers. This was a single-arm, pilot study in which adult cancer patients undergoing IV chemotherapy or immunotherapy used the DigiBioMarC app, and their caregivers used the TOGETHERCare app, for approximately one month to report weekly on the pati

SUBMITTER: Yunis R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10858186 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature