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. 2024 Apr 22;10(9):e30001. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e30001

Table 2.

Class 3 (blue) Patients', relatives', and nurses’ approaches.

Words Interviews Issue Attribute References
Impact on person's life barrier, phone, old, age Relative 2: ‘How are you going to be connected to the phone, if you have any problems walking?’ Barriers Limited financial resources and troubles with technical gadgets [10,42]
Patient 3: ‘People closest to the progressive forms are older. … Handling of a smartphone is more complicated for them.’
Nurse 2: ‘Patients may not like it so much, not by age. Some older patients handle their smartphones phenomenally.’
application, medication, diagnosis Patient 7: ‘The application, having to connect it to the socks and so on, wouldn't affect me either.’ Drivers Proactive attitude [90]
Nurse 1: ‘All of this will help us to know how patients are really doing and, based on that, we can give them a medication.’