Table 2.
Participants’ attitudes at baseline, regarding utility of a mobile health app for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) in the Florida mHealth Adherence Project for PLWH Study, 2015-2016.
| Attitudinal items | Totala (N=132) | mHealthb users (n=47) | mHealth nonusers (n=85) | P value | ||
| Mobile app could help me remember to take my medications | .15 | |||||
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Agree | 112 (85.5) | 43 (91.5) | 69 (82.1) |
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Not agree | 19 (14.5) | 4 (8.5) | 15 (17.9) |
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| Too much effort to learn to use a new app | .17 | |||||
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Agree | 25 (19.1) | 6 (12.8) | 19 (22.6) |
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Not agree | 106 (80.9) | 41 (87.2) | 65 (77.4) |
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| Most of my friends would agree that I should try a mobile app for medication reminders | .34 | |||||
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Agree | 68 (51.9) | 27 (57.4) | 41 (48.8) |
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Not agree | 63 (48.1) | 20 (42.6) | 43 (51.2) |
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| Someone at the clinic will help to set up the app if I have difficulties | .04c | |||||
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Agree | 101 (77.1) | 41 (87.2) | 60 (71.4) |
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Not agree | 30 (22.9) | 6 (12.8) | 24 (28.6) |
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| The app must be fun to use | .52 | |||||
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Agree | 69 (52.7) | 23 (48.9) | 46 (54.8) |
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Not agree | 62 (47.3) | 24 (51.1) | 38 (45.2) |
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| Will use app only if it is free of charge | .11 | |||||
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Agree | 89 (67.9) | 36 (76.6) | 53 (63.1) |
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Not agree | 42 (32.1) | 11 (23.4) | 31 (36.9) |
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| I feel like I will need to use the app | .002c | |||||
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Agree | 76 (58.5) | 36 (76.6) | 40 (48.2) |
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Not agree | 54 (41.5) | 11 (23.4) | 43 (51.8) |
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aN does not always total to 132 due to missing data for some items.
bmHealth: mobile health.
cP values are significant (<.05).