Internet Access and Usage Among Stroke Survivors and Their Informal Caregivers: Cross-sectional Study
| Autor: | Jennifer E. Sanner Beauchamp, Mark G. Weiner, Tahani Casameni Montiel, Sean I Savitz, Yazan Bittar, Imama Ali Naqvi, Constance M. Johnson, Anjail Sharrief, Munachi Okpala, Norma Hunter |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Gerontology
caregivers business.product_category Cross-sectional study education Ethnic group Psychological intervention Medicine (miscellaneous) lcsh:Medicine Health Informatics 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine surveys medicine Internet access 030212 general & internal medicine Stroke Original Paper mobile phone Descriptive statistics business.industry lcsh:R questionnaires medicine.disease stroke Computer Science Applications internet access Cohort The Internet business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | JMIR Formative Research, Vol 5, Iss 3, p e25123 (2021) JMIR Formative Research |
| Popis: | Background Web-based interventions have shown promise for chronic disease management but have not been widely applied to populations with stroke. Existing barriers may inhibit the adoption of web-based interventions among stroke survivors and necessitate the involvement of informal caregivers. However, limited information is available on internet accessibility and usability among stroke survivors and their caregivers. Objective This study aims to investigate internet access and usage in a cohort of stroke survivors and their caregivers. Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 375 participants (248 stroke survivors and 127 caregivers). Descriptive statistics were generated using cross-tabulation. Comparisons with categorical data were conducted using the chi-square test, whereas the Mann-Whitney U test was used for comparisons involving ordinal variables. Results Overall, 86.1% (323/375) of the participants reported having internet access. Caregivers were more likely than stroke survivors to access the internet (N=375, χ21=18.5, P12 months after a stroke reported higher internet access than those who survived Conclusions Future feasibility and acceptability studies should consider the role of the informal caregiver, participant age, race and ethnicity, the use of smartphone apps, email and text correspondence, and the amount of time elapsed since the stroke event in the design and implementation of web-based interventions for populations with stroke. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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