Characteristic and Requirements of Hypertensive Patients - Willing to Use Digital Health Tools at Chinese Community, A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Survey (Preprint)

作者：Yong Liu, Shiqun Chen, Guoli Sun, Xiaolin Cen, Jin Liu, Jianfeng Ye, Jiyan Chen, Li Lei, Yibo He, Feier Song, Wei Guo, Yan Liang, Yuying Hu, Yingling Zhou · 年份：2019 · DOI：10.2196/preprints.13775 · 研究领域：Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies、Mobile Health and mHealth Applications、Digital Mental Health Interventions

BACKGROUND Hypertension management with digital health tools (WeChat or mobile health apps) provide opportunities for new methods for hypertensive patients. However, the willingness of these patients to use social media and mobile health apps for hypertension management remains unclear. OBJECTIVE This study was to explore the characteristic and requirement of patients willing to use digital health tools to manage hypertension (WDH). METHODS From February to March, 2018, we handed out questionnaires to 1089 patients with hypertension at eight Chinese primary medical units. We assessed predictors of WDH and requirement among WDH patients. RESULTS Overall, 43% (465/1089) of participants were WDH patients, who were younger (58±12 vs 61±13ys), more working (31% vs 14%) and higher education(65% vs 52%)(All P<0.0001). After adjusting for other predictors, higher education (OR: 0.52; 95%CI: 0.34-0.79), good medicine adherence (OR: 1.5; 95% CI: 1.0-2.3) and blood pressure self-monitoring(OR:1.6; 95% CI: 1.2-2.3) remained significantly associated with WDH (all P<0.05). WDH patients responsed that the digital health tools should try to provide a platform for blood pressure monitoring (42%), medication reminder (41%), hypertension knowledge (39%) and doctor-patient communication (32%) . CONCLUSIONS Our survey suggested that among hypertensive patients, willingness to use digital health tools was significantly associated with education, medicine adherence an...