Association between the use of an app for providing healthcare information for parents and urgent emergency department visits for children: a cross-sectional study in Japan.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the association between the use of medical information applications and urgent emergency room consultation behaviour among parents who visited the emergency department (ED) of their children.

Design

Cross-sectional survey.

Setting

A primary-level paediatric emergency medical facility in Nagano Prefecture.

Participants

Parents of children aged 8 years or younger who had visited the medical facility between December 2023 and March 2024.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The primary outcome was defined as an association between the urgency of ED visits and parental use of mobile applications. The secondary outcome was the association between the urgency of ED visits and app evaluations among parents using the app. The urgency of t

SUBMITTER: Sakamoto M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11977463 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature