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. 2016 May 30;5(2):e44. doi: 10.2196/resprot.4219

Table 2.

Participant characteristics (N=37).


Mean (SD) n (%)
Age (years) 43.6 (15.9)
Disease duration (years) 14.1 (10.8)
Gender (% female)
37 (100)
Marital status (% married)
21 (57)
Education (% post-secondary)
32 (86)
Comfort with computers (% comfortable to very comfortable)
27 (73)
Internet usage per week (hours) 15.8 (24.6)
Health information searches per week (hours) 2.8 (0.9)
Preference for web searching

Personal Computer
24 (65)
Tablet
7 (19)
Mobile Phone
6 (16)