Joel O Aluko, Olayinka A Onasoga, Regis R Marie Modeste, Odinaka B Ani
Student nurses' practices and willingness to teach relatives breast self-examination in Nigeria
Health SA = SA Gesondheid
availability lowcost mobile devices ease internet access mobile health mhealth digitally revolutionizing health sector even resourceconstrained settings however necessary assess enduser perceptions deploying potential interventions study aimed assess mobile phone usage patterns acceptability mobile phone support care treatment patients tuberculosis tb south india exploratory study conducted urban private tertiary care teaching hospital nearby public primarylevel health care facilities bangalore south india recruited 185 patients tb consecutive sampling subsequent written informed consent participants responded intervieweradministered pretested questionnaire questionnaire included questions demographics phone usage patterns benefits using mobile phone technology improve health outcomes treatment adherence frequency mean median sd interquartile range used describe data bivariate associations assessed demographics clinical details phone usage mhealth communication preferences using chisquare test odds ratios associations p value 20 included logistic regression model p value 05 considered significant 185 participants 151 816 used mobile phone half owned smartphone primary use mobile phone communicate voice calls 147151 974 short message service sms text messaging feature used 66151 437 mobile phone users total 87 151 mobile phone users 576 knew use camera 41151 272 mobile phone users used mobile phones communicate health care providers although receiving medication reminders via mobile phones acceptable participants 2 participants considered repeated reminders intrusion privacy majority participants 137185 741 preferred health communications via voice calls total participants 123185 665 requested reminders sent specific times day 22185 119 suggested reminders synchronize prescribed medication schedule whereas 40185 216 time preferences english literacy associated preference sms comparison voice calls participants 142185 768 preferred videobased directly observed treatment compared inperson directly observed treatment although mobile phones supporting health treatment adherence acceptable patients tb mhealth interventions consider language mode communication preferred timing communication improve uptake