评估移动应用程序对癌症风险健康素养的影响:一个跨部门研究设计
Philippe Westerlinck1, Nathalie Maes2, Philippe Coucke1
1Department of Radiation Oncology, CHU de Liège, Liège, Belgium.
Applied clinical informatics
|January 15, 2025
概括
癌症风险计算器应用程序教育用户个人癌症风险和影响因素. 许多用户发现它很有用,了解了新的信息,并表示愿意改变习惯.
科学领域:
- 在瘤学瘤学.
- 数字健康数字健康
- 健康 行为 健康行为
背景情况:
- 移动应用程序为传播健康信息提供了新的途径.
- "癌症风险计算器"应用程序旨在向用户提供有关个人癌症风险和促成因素的信息.
- 对接受放射治疗的瘤患者及其家属进行了调查.
研究的目的:
- 评估"癌症风险计算器"应用程序对用户癌症风险意识的影响.
- 评估应用程序影响用户行为和习惯变化的潜力.
- 识别用户特征与他们对应用程序的反应之间的相关性.
主要方法:
- 共有162名患者或他们的家人参与了这项研究.
- 收集的数据包括人口统计数据,癌症类型以及对12个应用程序相关问题的答案.
- 使用多重回归模型来分析受访者特征对反应的影响,显著性设置在p < 0.05.
主要成果:
- 67.1%的受访者发现该应用程序有用,63.4%的受访者了解了新的信息.
- 超过一半 (52.5%) 愿意根据应用程序提供的见解来修改习惯.
- 受访者对各种癌症风险因素的数量和影响感到惊. 乳腺癌诊断和年龄是影响反应的重要因素 (p=0.044和p=0.049,分别).
结论:
- "癌症风险计算器"移动应用程序在提高用户对癌症风险的理解方面具有显著的实用性.
- 该应用程序显示了积极影响健康相关行为和促进用户习惯修改的潜力.
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