PMID- 27703334
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20220311
IS  - 1177-889X (Print)
IS  - 1177-889X (Electronic)
IS  - 1177-889X (Linking)
VI  - 10
DP  - 2016
TI  - Patients' attitudes to the use of modern technologies in the treatment of 
      diabetes.
PG  - 1869-1879
AB  - BACKGROUND: The incidence of diabetes is rising across the world. This global 
      problem significantly affects the economic and social development in the 21st 
      century. If the disease is diagnosed in time, the number of complications as well 
      as the costs of therapy will be lower. Modern technologies permeate all spheres 
      of medicine, and diabetes treatment is no exception. Therefore, the aim of this 
      article is to analyze patients' attitudes to the use of modern technologies in 
      the treatment of diabetes (type 1 diabetes mellitus [T1DM] and type 2 diabetes 
      mellitus [T2DM]). METHODS: A total of 313 respondents from the Czech Republic in 
      the period from June 24, 2015, to July 24, 2015, participated in a questionnaire 
      survey. The target group was diabetics regardless of the type of illness. 
      Collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistical methods, Z-test, and 
      test of independence (Pearson's chi-squared test). RESULTS: Although in other 
      areas mobile applications are used to monitor patients' health condition in ~30% 
      of cases, in the case of diabetes they are used by only 4% of respondents. 
      Approximately 8% of participants use an application, but they do not like it. The 
      rest of the respondents have never used any mobile application. These low figures 
      are due to a lack of knowledge about the availability and possibilities of mobile 
      applications. A positive correlation was proven between technical skills and 
      methods of entering data. Gender and age show only a weak dependency of the 
      method of writing data on their own health condition. Furthermore, the monitored 
      parameters show that patients with T1DM control and know more about their health 
      condition than patients with T2DM, which is reflected, for example, by more 
      frequent blood glucose measurements or larger track of their physical activity. 
      Conversely, the relationship between the associated complications and self-care 
      activities has not been demonstrated. CONCLUSION: Despite the current fast 
      development of modern technologies, these technologies are not frequently used in 
      treating patients. The principal problem lies in patients' low technological 
      knowledge and their higher age, which makes learning new skills, including the 
      use of modern technologies, more difficult.
FAU - Cerna, Lucie
AU  - Cerna L
AD  - Department of Economics, Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of 
      Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic.
FAU - Maresova, Petra
AU  - Maresova P
AD  - Department of Economics, Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of 
      Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20160922
PL  - New Zealand
TA  - Patient Prefer Adherence
JT  - Patient preference and adherence
JID - 101475748
PMC - PMC5038572
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - diabetes mellitus
OT  - modern technologies
OT  - patients' attitudes
OT  - survey
EDAT- 2016/10/06 06:00
MHDA- 2016/10/06 06:01
PMCR- 2016/09/22
CRDT- 2016/10/06 06:00
PHST- 2016/10/06 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/10/06 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/10/06 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2016/09/22 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ppa-10-1869 [pii]
AID - 10.2147/PPA.S118040 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Patient Prefer Adherence. 2016 Sep 22;10:1869-1879. doi: 10.2147/PPA.S118040. 
      eCollection 2016.