High mobile phone ownership but low internet access and use among young adults attending an urban HIV clinic in Uganda
| Autor: | Solome Naluwu, Winnie Nakiyingi, Barbara Castelnuovo, Rosalind Ratanshi, Jane Namukasa Wanyama, Noela Owarwo, Madina Seera, sarah Maria Nabaggala, Agnes N. Kiragga |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Gerontology
young adults Health (social science) business.product_category Sociology and Political Science Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Health outcomes medicine.disease_cause 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Developmental and Educational Psychology Internet access medicine Uganda 030212 general & internal medicine Young adult mHealth mobile phones 030505 public health Data collection business.industry HIV Mobile phone The Internet internet 0305 other medical science business |
| Popis: | Whilst there is increasing interest in the use of mobile phones and other technology (mHealth) for improving health outcomes; limited data exists on how young people living with HIV use mhealth technologies to get information and to support their health. We sought to assess access and use of mobile phones and the Internet among young adults living with HIV attending the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) clinic, Kampala. Data collection took place between March 2014 and January 2016 among young adults aged 18-24 years attending the IDI transition clinic; in a cross-sectional survey using a semi-structured questionnaire. Of the 272 young adults interviewed, 75% were female, median age was 22.3 years (IQR: 20.6-23.5). Whilst there was a trend to females being more likely to use mobile phones compared to the males, this was not statistically significant (93.7% female versus 85.9%, p=0.057). Fifty percent of mobile phone users used their phones for HIV-related activities such as medication reminders. General access and use of the internet was low at 34% and users were more likely to be males than females (45.5% versus 30.6%, p=0.027). A third (32.3%) of the internet users used it to search for HIV-related information. Owning a mobile phone was associated with ease of access to HIV information and preference to receive messages via text messages(p |
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