An observational study in Mobile Applications and Mobile Health, sponsored by University Grenoble Alps. Completed at 13 sites in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 69 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-05-08.
Sponsored by University Grenoble Alps · Observational
This study evaluates the frequency of use of smartphone health applications among people consulting in primary care in the Grenoble region, France.
This is a descriptive study using a questionnaire completed by the patient and distributed by general practitioners. The study also collects the type of used application as well as the rhythm of usage, and compares the use of mobile health applications according to the sociodemographic, geographical and medical characteristics of the studied population.
Smartphones are more and more present and change many aspects of people's life, especially in the field of health. The appearance of numerous mobile health applications over the past years explains this strong attractiveness.
According to some studies, these could lead to savings in health care systems by promoting a preventive approach and refocusing cares on the patient who would be more independent. However, not much data on the use of smartphone health applications by patients are reported in the scientific literature.
The main objective of this study is to evaluate the frequency of use of smartphone mobile health applications among primary care patients aged 18 to 69 in the Grenoble region, France.
The secondary objectives are the collection of the kind of application used, the rhythm of usage of these health applications and the comparison of the frequency of use with the sociodemographic, geographical and medical characteristics of the studied population.
To this end, the investigators use a questionnaire distributed by voluntary general practitioners and filled by patients. The number of subjects to be included is 385 and the number of distributed questionnaires is 1500.
University Grenoble Alps is the lead sponsor of 5 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.
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Population recruited in 12 general practictioners and 1 primary care center in Grenoble area in France.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Use of at least one mobile health application on a smartphone
Use of at least one mobile health application on a smartphone since the first use of a smartphone.
Time frame: month 1
Socio-demographic characteristics
Age (years) Sex (F/M) socio-professional group
Time frame: month 1
Geographical characteristics
Postcode
Time frame: month 1
Names of applications used by the patient
The patient name the applications which he used. In order to help him/her , there are some examples of kind of applications.
Time frame: month 1
Origin of the awareness of the existence of the mobile health application used.
How the patient became aware of the existence of used application: general practitioners, other doctors, other health professionals, media, social circle
Time frame: month 1
Number of drugs on the prescription
number of drugs on the prescription.
Time frame: month 1
Illness requiring treatment for more than a year
Diabetes, malignant tumor, psychiatric condition, cardiac diseases, rheumatological diseases, pulmonary diseases, chronic renal failure, other
Time frame: month 1
Ran from Nov 2017 to primary completion in Jan 2018, 1 month.
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