Internet Access and Use by Patients with Gynecologic Malignancies: A Cross-Sectional Study.
Simple Summary: Internet resources, both technical and informal, have become important aspects of developing E-Health applications for cancer populations. Despite extrinsic and intrinsic patient factors applicable to all patient populations, there exist patient population-specific aspects that E-Hea...
| Publicado en: | Cancers Vol. 16; no. 9; pp. 1677 - 1687 |
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May2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=177182554&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 177182554 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 20726694 B74B jtl: Cancers issn: 20726694 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: May2024 vid: 16 iid: 9 pid: 97109 pub: MDPI artinfo: ui: 177182554 177182554 177182554 10.3390/cancers16091677 177182554 ppf: 1677 ppct: 10 formats: tig: atl: Internet Access and Use by Patients with Gynecologic Malignancies: A Cross-Sectional Study. aug: au: Bach, Frederik Engelhardt, David Mallmann, Christoph A. Tamir, Sina Schröder, Lars Domröse, Christian M. Mallmann, Michael R. affil: Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 20, 50931 Cologne, Germany sug: subj: Genital Neoplasms, Female Neoplasm Metastasis Internet Access Utilization Digital Health Education Physician-Patient Relations Cancer Patients Human Cross Sectional Studies Academic Medical Centers Questionnaires Prospective Studies Descriptive Statistics Wireless Communications Telehealth Methods Digital Technology Motivation Smartphone Mobile Applications Cellular Phone ab: Simple Summary: Internet resources, both technical and informal, have become important aspects of developing E-Health applications for cancer populations. Despite extrinsic and intrinsic patient factors applicable to all patient populations, there exist patient population-specific aspects that E-Health developers and physicians should be aware of when introducing E-Health offers to specific cancer patient populations. A better understanding of specific aspects of the digitalization of gynecologic cancer patients will help to develop specific E-Health offers for this patient population. The influence of digitalization on information-seeking, decision-making properties of patients, therapy monitoring, and patient–physician interactions has and will change the global health sector tremendously. With this study, we add knowledge on the degree of digitalization, digital device availability, the use and availability of home and mobile internet access, and the willingness to use novel forms of patient–physician interactions in a group of gynecologic cancer patients. From July 2017 to March 2022, 150 women with a diagnosis of gynecologic malignancy at the University Hospital of Cologne participated in this questionnaire-based cohort study. Any one of three potential internet access devices (stationary computer, smartphone, or tablet) is owned by 94% of patients and the only patient intrinsic factor that is significantly associated with the property of any one of these internet access devices is age. The Internet is used daily or several times per week to assess information on their disease by 92.8%, 90.1% use the Internet for communicational purposes and 71.9% and 93.6% are willing to communicate with their treating physicians via E-Mail or even novel forms of communication, respectively. In conclusion, the predominant majority of gynecologic cancer patients can be reached by modern internet-based E-Health technologies. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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