Table 3.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of survey patients who would like to use a Parkinson’s disease self-management app, provided it is easy to operate

Variable	SA + A	N + SD + D	P
Age (years)	67.05 ± 9.24	76.14 ± 9.76	< 0.001
Education level	10.81 ± 3.23	8.83 ± 3.26	0.001
Morisky Scale score	5.91 ± 1.41	4.94 ± 1.39	< 0.001
Gender			0.517
Male/Female	97/72	18/17
Resident location			0.795
Urban	143 (84.6%)	29 (82.9%)
Rural	26 (15.4%)	6 (17.1%)
Occupation (employment)			0.478
self-employed	57 (33.7%)	14 (40.0%)
Retirees	112 (66.3%)	21 (60.0%)
Number of anti-Parkinson drug			0.162
≤ two drugs	123 (72.8%)	22 (61.1%)
≥ three drugs	46 (27.2%)	14 (38.9%)
Whether browsing a web			0.041
Browsing	90 (53.3%)	12 (34.3%)
Not browsing	79 (46.7%)	23 (65.7%)
Parkinson disease course			< 0.001
≤ 5 years	121 (71.6%)	12 (36.4%)
≥ 6 years	48 (28.4%)	21 (63.6%)
MDS-UPDRS (H & Y)			0.013
≤ 50(I-II)	87 (51.5%)	26 (74.3%)
51–100(III)	82 (48.5%)	9 (25.7%)