Table 2.

Chronic heart transplant recipients’ (>1.5 years from transplant) access to technology and willingness to use mobile health (mHealth) services (N=135).

Variable		Value
Number of devices per patient, mean (SD)		2.2 (0.7)
Types of devices owned by patients, n (%)
	Mobile phone	132 (97.8)
	Computer	98 (72.6)
	Tablet	60 (44.4)
Internet access on patients’ devices, n (%)
	3G or 4G connection	112 (83.0)
	Only connects to the internet using WiFi	18 (13.3)
	Does not know/no response	5 (3.7)
Frequency of technology use, n (%)
	Often	87 (64.4)
	Sporadically	35 (25.9)
	Never	13 (9.6)
Internet usage for health-related purposes, n (%)
	Often	41 (30.4)
	Sporadically	43 (31.9)
	Never	51 (28.1)
Initial assessment of the mHealth approach, n (%)
	Not very useful	2 (1.5)
	Useful	92 (68.1)
	Very useful	40 (29.6)
	Not yet known until the platform is tested	1 (0.7)
Initial assessment of mHeart type of platform, n (%) (multiple choice)
	Interested in using mHeart mobile app	81 (60.0)
	Interested in using mHeart website	64 (47.4)
	Not yet known until the platform is tested	40 (29.6)
Initially requires a tutor to use the platform, n (%)		30 (22.2)