Willingness of Patients to Use Computers for Health Communication and Monitoring Following Myocardial Infarction.
Comput Inform Nurs
; 33(9): 384-9, 2015 Sep.
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| ID: mdl-26176640
ABSTRACT
We describe the computer use characteristics of 406 post-myocardial infarction (MI) patients and their willingness to engage online for health communication and monitoring. Most participants were computer users (n = 259; 63.8%) and half (n = 209; 51.5%) read health information online at least monthly. However, most participants did not go online to track health conditions (n = 283; 69.7%), look at medical records (n = 287; 70.7%), or e-mail doctors (n = 351; 86.5%). Most participants would consider using a Web site to e-mail doctors (n = 275; 67.7%), share medical information with doctors (n = 302; 74.4%), send biological data to their doctor (n = 308; 75.9%), look at medical records (n = 321; 79.1%), track health conditions (n = 331; 81.5%), and read about health conditions (n = 332; 81.8%). Sharing health information online with family members (n = 181; 44.6%) or for support groups (n = 223; 54.9%) was not of much interest. Most post-MI participants reported they were interested in communicating with their provider and tracking their health conditions online. Because patients with a history of MI tend to be older and are disproportionately minority, researchers and clinicians must be careful to design interventions that embrace post-MI patients of diverse backgrounds that both improve their access to care and health outcomes.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Actitud hacia los Computadores
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Telemedicina
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Comunicación en Salud
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Infarto del Miocardio
Tipo de estudio:
Clinical_trials
Límite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Comput Inform Nurs
Asunto de la revista:
ENFERMAGEM
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INFORMATICA MEDICA
Año:
2015
Tipo del documento:
Article