Abstract:

Objective To analyze the mobile phone usage and video supervision willingness of residents in Longhua District of Shenzhen City.Methods The convenience sampling method was applied to extract 3 sampling sites (including Longhua Center for Chronic Disease control, in-patients Department of Respiratory Medicine in Longhua District Central Hospital and industrial park) in Longhua District of Shenzhen City, and 465 inhabitants (including 134 suspected pulmonary tuberculosis patients, 75 inpatients in the Department of Respiratory Medicine and 256 healthy workers in the industrial park) were taken as survey objects from January to February 2017. Data on demographic characteristics, mobile phone usage, mobile network usage and tuberculosis medication supervision were collected and analyzed.Results A total of 465 questionnaires were issued. Twenty seven questionnaires were excluded due to missing items or errors, and 438 were finally included. The efficiency of the questionnaire was 94.2%. 98.6% (432/438) of the respondents had smartphones, 95.2% (417/438) were able to surf the internet, 93.4% (409/438) applied Wechat, and 75.3% (330/438) kept their phones online at all times. By subgroup analysis by education background, the proportions of capacity of 16G and above, the usage rate of smartphones able to surf the internet and the usage rate of Wechat were 63.2% (115/182), 91.2% (166/182) and 88.5% (161/182) in the group of junior middle school and below, 75.2% (94/125), 97.6% (122/125) and 96.8% (121/125) in the group of high school, and 84.0% (110/131), 98.5% (129/131) and 96.9% (127/131) in the group of college and above, respectively. With the increase in the level of education, the proportions were increasing (the trend {\chi }_{\mathrm{trend}}^2 were 16.97, 9.50 and 9.75, respectively, and the P values were <0.01, 0.002 and 0.002, respectively). 68.9% (302/438) residents were willing to video medication way (taking multi-day medication and shooting the daily medication video). In terms of medication reminder, 77.4% (339/438) residents were willing to receive a daily medication reminder text by Wechat, and only 69.2% (303/438) residents were willing to accept the telephone alert when they missed daily drug.Conclusion The majority of residents in Longhua District of Shenzhen City have a mobile phone and good mobile network conditions to carry out tuberculosis mobile phone supervision and management and the willingness to choose video supervision is strong. Especially for residents with college education and above, mobile phone usage is more suitable for video supervision. Residents are more likely to choose to receive medication reminders by Wechat rather than to receive missed medication reminders calls.

Key words: Tuberculosis, pulmonary, Cellular phone, Video-audio media, Self administration, Reminder systems, Questionnaires, Data interpretation, statistical