Use of Health Apps and Wearable Devices: Survey Among Italian Associations for Patient Advocacy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Technological tools such as Web-based social networks, telemedicine, apps, or wearable devices are becoming more widespread in health care like elsewhere. Although patients are the main users, for example, to monitor symptoms and clinical parameters or to communicate with the doctor, their perspective is seldom analyzed, and to the best of our knowledge, no one has focused on the patients' health care advocacy associations' point of view.

Objective

The objective of this study was to assess patients' health care advocacy associations' opinions about the use, usefulness, obstacles, negative aspects, and impact of health apps and wearable devices through a Web-based survey.

Methods

We conducted a Web-based survey through SurveyMonkey over nearly 3 months. Part

SUBMITTER: Mosconi P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6350090 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature