- Title
- Who is more likely to use the internet for health behavior change? A cross-sectional survey of internet use among smokers and nonsmokers who are orthopedic trauma patients
- Creator
- McCrabb, Sam; Baker, Amanda L.; Wolfenden, Luke; Skelton, Eliza; Bonevski, Billie; Attia, John; Balogh, Zsolt J.; Lott, Natalie; Palazzi, Kerrin; Naylor, Justine; Harris, Ian A.; Doran, Christopher; George, Johnson
- Relation
- NHMRC.1071868 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1071868
- Relation
- JMIR Mental Health Vol. 4, Issue 2, no. e18
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/mental.7435
- Publisher
- JMIR Publications
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Background: eHealth presents opportunities to provide population groups with accessible health interventions, although knowledge about Internet access, peoples’ interest in using the Internet for health, and users’ characteristics are required prior to eHealth program development. Objective: This study surveyed hospital patients to examine rates of Internet use, interest in using the Internet for health, and respondent characteristics related to Internet use and interest in using the Internet for health. For patients who smoke, preferences for types of smoking cessation programs for use at home and while in hospital were also examined. Methods: An online cross-sectional survey was used to survey 819 orthopedic trauma patients (response rate: 72.61%, 819/1128) from two public hospitals in New South Wales, Australia. Logistic regressions were used to examine associations between variables. Results: A total of 72.7% (574/790) of respondents had at least weekly Internet access and more than half (56.6%, 357/631) reported interest in using the Internet for health. Odds of at least weekly Internet usage were higher if the individual was born overseas (OR 2.21, 95% CI 1.27-3.82, P=.005), had a tertiary education (OR 3.75, 95% CI 2.41-5.84, P<.001), or was a nonsmoker (OR 3.75, 95% CI 2.41-5.84, P<.001). Interest in using the Internet for health increased with high school (OR 1.85, 95% CI 1.09-3.15, P=.02) or tertiary education (OR 2.48, 95% CI 1.66-3.70, P<.001), and if household incomes were more than AUS $100,000 (OR 2.5, 95% CI 1.25-4.97, P=.009). Older individuals were less interested in using the Internet for health (OR 0.98, 95% CI 0.97-0.99, P<.001). Conclusions: Online interventions may be a potential tool for health care in this hospitalized population.
- Subject
- internet; health; eHealth; health care; smoking; orthopedic trauma
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1338476
- Identifier
- uon:28031
- Identifier
- ISSN:2368-7959
- Rights
- ©Sam McCrabb, Amanda L Baker, John Attia, Zsolt J Balogh, Natalie Lott, Kerrin Palazzi, Justine Naylor, Ian A Harris, Christopher Doran, Johnson George, Luke Wolfenden, Eliza Skelton, Billie Bonevski. Originally published in JMIR Mental Health (http://mental.jmir.org), 30.05.2017. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Mental Health, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://mental.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
- Language
- eng
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