Willingness of Women With Pelvic Floor Disorders to Use Mobile Technology to Communicate With Their Health Care Providers

Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery
Daniel D LeeHeidi S Harvie

Abstract

The aim of this study was to assess willingness of women with pelvic floor disorders to adopt nontraditional mobile communication methods with health care providers. This is a cross-sectional study of women with pelvic floor disorders. Women completed a survey regarding what technology they owned, how they utilized it, and their willingness to use technology to communicate with providers. Overall mobile technology ownership was high; however, older women were significantly less likely to own a smartphone (75%) compared with younger (100%) and middle-aged women (98%; P < 0.01). On univariable analysis, factors significantly associated with willingness to use mobile technology were age (P < 0.01) and education status (P < 0.01). A relationship between travel distance to the clinic and willingness to adopt various mobile technologies was not noted. On multivariable analysis, after controlling for education and travel distance to clinic, older women remained significantly less likely to express willingness to use various technologies: video-conference technology (odds ratio [OR], 0.97; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.95-0.99), text messaging (OR, 0.94; 95% CI, 0.91-0.97), Internet-based patient portal (OR, 0.96; 95% CI, 0.94-0.98),...Continue Reading

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