Table 3.

Usage, attitudes, and preferences for mobile phone health care apps.

Usage, attitudes, and preferences for mobile phone health care apps		Female (n=242), n (%)	Male (n=114), n (%)	Total (N=356), n (%)	P value
Using any health care apps		47 (19.4)	20 (17.5)	67 (18.8)	.67
Types of health care apps
	Beauty counseling	20 (8.3)	3 (2.6)	23 (6.5)	.04
	Nutrition counseling	19 (7.9)	9 (7.9)	28 (7.9)	.99
	Disease prevention counseling	25 (10.3)	10 (8.8)	35 (9.8)	.65
	Disease treatment counseling	17 (7.0)	10 (8.8)	27 (7.6)	.56
Useful for health
	Not useful	13 (28.3)	5 (25.0)	18 (27.3)	.79
	Useful	33 (71.7)	15 (75.0)	48 (72.7)
Satisfaction with mobile health apps
	Dissatisfied	19 (43.2)	5 (26.3)	24 (38.1)	.21
	Satisfied	25 (56.8)	14 (73.7)	39 (61.9)
	Preferences
Type of apps
	Web-based apps	69 (29.2)	42 (37.2)	111 (31.8)	.14
	Mobile phone apps	167 (70.8)	71 (62.8)	238 (68.2)
Information and contents of apps
	Visuals	124 (51.9)	52 (46.0)	176 (50.0)	.30
	Text	6 (2.5)	1 (0.9)	7 (2.0)
	Combination of visuals and text	109 (45.6)	60 (53.1)	169 (48.0)
Areas of apps
	Specific area (focus on one topic)	115 (48.7)	67 (58.8)	182 (52.0)	.08
	Integrative areas (focus on multiple topics)	121 (51.3)	47 (41.2)	168 (48.0)
Sharing/social network functionalities
	Yes	131 (55.0)	57 (51.3)	188 (53.9)	.52
	No	107 (45.0)	54 (48.7)	161 (46.1)
Feeling toward advertisements within apps
	Neutral	49 (20.5)	24 (21.6)	73 (20.9)	.70
	Negative	188 (78.7)	85 (76.6)	273 (78.0)
	Positive	2 (0.8)	2 (1.8)	4 (1.1)