Mobile Health, Disease Knowledge, and Self-Care Behavior in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Prospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT: Mobile health (mHealth) management is an emerging strategy of care for patients with chronic diseases. However, the effect of mHealth management on clinical outcomes of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) has not been well-studied. The aim of this study was to investigate the additional influence of mHealth on disease knowledge and self-care behavior in CKD patients who had received traditional education. We designed and developed a new healthcare mobile application, called iCKD, which has several major features, including home-based physiological signal monitoring, disease health education, nutrition analysis, medication reminder, and alarms and a warning system. Trained nurses interviewed patients with CKD using structured questionnaires of disease knowledge and self-care behavior

SUBMITTER: Tsai YC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8469557 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature