COVID-19-Related Disruptions and Increased mHealth Emergency Use Intention: Experience Sampling Method Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has become a global public health event, which has raised concerns regarding individuals' health. Individuals need to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic with guidelines on symptom recognition, home isolation, and maintain mental health. Besides routine use of mobile health (mHealth) such as accessing information to keep healthy, individuals can use mHealth services in situations requiring urgent medical care, which is defined as mHealth emergency use. It is not known whether individuals have increased their daily mHealth services emergency use as a result of disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective

The purpose of this diary analysis study is to assess the influences of daily disruptions related to the COVID-19 pandemic on individua

SUBMITTER: Zhang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7775377 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature