Young | Adult | Old adult | Chi-squared | Total | |
p-value | |||||
Patients | 95 | 217 | 391 | 673 | |
Having | |||||
Internet access | 94.3% | 92.6% | 61.4% | <0.001 | 76.6% |
A cell phone | 94.4% | 97.3% | 86.4% | <0.001 | 91.2% |
A smartphone | 69% | 78.6% | 44.3% | <0.001 | 59.5% |
Use of ICT type (at least once a week) | |||||
SMS | 61.2% | 79.7% | 65.8% | 0.001 | 69.9% |
60% | 72.2% | 36.5% | <0.001 | 51.4% | |
30.6% | 30.9% | 9.2% | <0.001 | 19.9% | |
YouTube | 44.7% | 56.3% | 16.3% | <0.001 | 33.4% |
46.3% | 67.5% | 36.1% | <0.001 | 47.9% | |
Internet | 64.6% | 74.6% | 44.4% | <0.001 | 56.8% |
18.8% | 25% | 5.5% | <0.001 | 14.1% | |
Skype | 25.4% | 30.1% | 8% | <0.001 | 18.1% |
Interest in receiving information through ICT type (high/some interest) | |||||
SMS | 51.2% | 58.2% | 60.5% | 0.322 | 58.5% |
43% | 47.3% | 19.6% | <0.001 | 32% | |
31.3% | 19.4% | 2.4% | <0.001 | 11.6% | |
24.2% | 9.8% | 1.8% | <0.001 | 7.6% | |
41% | 59.3% | 34.3% | <0.001 | 43.6% | |
72.3% | 76.8% | 48.1% | <0.001 | 61.5% | |
Interest in asking physician through ICT type (high/some interest) | |||||
SMS | 51.9% | 61.9% | 60.9% | 0.266 | 60% |
46.2% | 41.3% | 19.6% | <0.001 | 30.4% | |
18.5% | 17% | 2.7% | <0.001 | 9.3% | |
20% | 10.8% | 2.2% | <0.001 | 7.5% | |
37.7% | 56.4% | 33.1% | <0.001 | 41.5% | |
69.5% | 74.9% | 44.2% | <0.001 | 58.4% |
Differences in values between the three age groups are significant at the 0.05 significance level. SMS: short message service.