David Sin|Xiaoxuan Guo|Dayna Wei Wei Yong|Tian Qiu|Peter Kirm Seng Moey|Falk Müller?Riemenschneider|Ngiap Chuan Tan
Assessment of willingness to Tele-monitoring interventions in patients with type 2 diabetes and/or hypertension in the public primary healthcare setting
Ministry of Health|SingHealth Polyclinics|Ministry of Health|Ministry of Health|SingHealth Polyclinics|National University of Singapore|SingHealth Polyclinics
telemonitoring tm remote monitoring individuals via infocommunication technology enabling relatives careproviders recognize health status conveniently tm successful individuals often patients medical conditions willing accept adopt daily lives study aimed determine prevalence willingness patients type 2 diabetes mellitus t2dm andor hypertension towards use tm factors influencing uptakea crosssectional survey conducted two public primary care clinics polyclinics northeastern singapore tm implemented patients t2dm andor hypertension consented fulfilling eligibility criteria first introduced concept tm using pictogram explanation investigators data demography clinical parameters technological literacy acceptance tm based health information technology acceptance model hitam subsequently collected computed analyzed followed regression analyses identify factors associated willingness use tmamong 1125 eligible multiethnic asian patients approached 899 completed assisted questionnaire survey yielding response rate 799 mean age 58 8 years females 513 chinese 693 overall 530 patients willing use tm personal beliefs technology 354 95ci 250450 p 0001 prior technology utility 318 95ci 157642 p 0001 patients requirements accompanied 148 95 ci 10542082 p 003 cost considerations 296 95 ci 22573388 p 001 technological literacy 277 95ci 205338 p 0001 associated willingness use tmslightly half patients willing use tm factors age ethnicity technological literacy beliefs previous utility technology patients addressed implementing tm primary care