Kidney transplant recipients' attitudes about using mobile health technology for managing and monitoring medication therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess smartphone ownership, use of mobile health (mHealth) applications, and willingness to use this technology to facilitate medication management after kidney transplantation.

Methods

A survey was developed with the use of previously validated questions and administered to stable adult kidney recipients from May to July 2015. Descriptive and comparative statistics were used to assess willingness to utilize mHealth technology as it related to sociodemographics, medication adherence, and medication side effects. Comparisons were also made to a survey administered in 2012. The primary outcome was the incidence of cell phone and smartphone ownership, willingness to use mHealth, immunosuppressant side effects, and self-reported nonadherence.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Browning RB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4968877 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature