Table 5.
Background variables and clinical outcomes.
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Gender | Male, female, or unwilling to answer | ✓ |
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Marital status | Unmarried, married, cohabitant, widow or widower, divorced, separated, registered partner, divorced partner, or surviving partner | ✓ |
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Education | No education or preschool education, elementary school, high school without diploma, high school with diploma, bachelor’s degree or university or college lower level, master’s degree or university or college higher level, or PhD or researchers training | ✓ |
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Employment status | Full-time, part-time, home-employed, pursuing further education, unemployed, disabled, or retired | ✓ |
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Lifestyle habits (3 items) | (1) Smoking (yes or no), (2) snuff (yes or no), and (3) alcohol consumption (yes, no, and if yes, how often) | ✓ |
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Digital skills (3 items) | (1) Use of smartphone (yes or no), (2) use of tablet (yes or no), and (3) use of computer (yes or no) | ✓ |
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Use of mobile health apps | Yes or no–if yes, specify which apps | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Clinical variables (from the medical record) | |||||||||
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Primary diagnosis |
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✓ |
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Time since diagnosis or start of condition | Duration of condition | ✓ |
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Medication | Current treatment and any changes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
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Comorbidities | Number of comorbidities | ✓ |
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| Use of health care resources (from the medical record) | |||||||||
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Contact with the outpatient clinic | Contact type (physical consultation, video consultation, telephone call, or other), planned or acute, and number of each |
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✓ | ||||
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Use of the digital service (dose of intervention) | Contact type (PROMa response, task, chat, video, or other) and the number of each |
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✓ | ||||
aPROM: patient-reported outcome measure.