scholarly journals “You Are on the Right Track With the App:” Qualitative Analysis of Mobile Phone Use and User Feedback Regarding Mobile Phone Sexual Risk Assessments for HIV Prevention Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janan J. Dietrich ◽  
Gabriella L. Benadé ◽  
Mamakiri Mulaudzi ◽  
Ashraf Kagee ◽  
Stefanie Hornschuh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Risk Assessments ◽  
Mobile Phone Use

Background: Accurate self-report of sexual behavior assists in identifying potential HIV exposure in HIV prevention trials. Brief mobile phone assessments, completed daily or after sexual activity, can improve the validity and reliability of self-reported sexual behavior and allow for remote survey completion outside of the clinic setting. We conducted a qualitative study to better understand participants mobile phone use and to explore their perspectives on how to improve an existing mobile application-based sexual risk assessment.Methods: Sexually active, HIV seronegative men (n = 14) and women (n = 15) aged 18–39 years were recruited through an HIV counseling and testing clinic and community outreach in Soweto, South Africa. We conducted qualitative research through four age-stratified focus group discussions (FGDs) and analyzed a brief socio-demographics and mobile phone access questionnaire. All participants completed a sexual risk assessment before the FGD. Using a framework analytic approach, data were coded with Nvivo software.Results: All participants had access to mobile phones and internet, and 27 (93.1%) were able to download applications on their personal phones. Participants preferred mobile risk assessments to be offered in a choice of South African languages, using formal language (as opposed to emojis), with straight-forward wording and limited to five to 10 questions. Most participants found it acceptable to complete the assessment once a week, on a weekday, while a few were willing to complete it after each sexual encounter. It was suggested that a message reminder to complete the assessment should be sent at least daily until it is completed. The majority agreed that a password-protected application with a discreet logo was ideal for privacy, ease of use and flexibility for completion in any setting. A concern with this format, however, was the potential data use requirement. Participants expressed privacy concerns with using SMS, WhatsApp and other social media for risk assessments. Most agreed on an airtime incentive between ZAR5-10 (USD 0.29–0.58) per survey. Participants encouraged researchers to provide feedback to them about their sexual risk.Conclusions: Completion of mobile phone sexual risk assessments can be optimized with minimal incentives by ensuring that questionnaires are simple, brief, infrequent and have trusted privacy measures.

Relationships of personality and lifestyle with mobile phone dependence among female nursing students

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satoko Ezoe ◽  
Masahiro Toda ◽  
Kimio Yoshimura ◽  
Aki Naritomi ◽  
Rei Den ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Nursing School ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Unhealthy Lifestyle ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Female College

To clarify the relationships of personality and lifestyle with mobile phone dependence, defined as an intermittent craving to use a mobile phone or excessive mobile phone use, we administered a self-report questionnaire to 132 female college students attending a nursing school in Osaka, Japan. Results of multiple regression analysis indicated that scores for extroversion and neuroticism were positively related to the score of the Mobile Phone Dependence Questionnaire (MPDQ; Toda, Monden, Kubo, & Morimoto, 2004), while the score for healthy practices was negatively related to that of the MPDQ. These findings suggest that mobile phone dependence in female college students is associated with elevated traits of extroversion and neuroticism, as well as an unhealthy lifestyle.

Factors influencing self-report of mobile phone use: the role of response prompt, time reference and mobile phone use in recall

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 664-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lada Timotijevic ◽  
Julie Barnett ◽  
Richard Shepherd ◽  
Victoria Senior
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Factors Influencing

Mothers Intention to Use Mobile Phone Text Message Reminders for Routine Child Vaccination in Northwest, Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeleke Abebaw Mekonnen ◽  
Kassahun Alemu Gelaye ◽  
Martin C. Were ◽  
Binyam Tilahun
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Outcome Variable ◽  
Intention To Use ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Child Vaccination

Abstract Background: The immunization program in most developing countries including Ethiopia is challenged by lack of effective methods to track vaccination schedules. With the unprecedented penetration of mobile devices in developing world, mHealth applications are being leveraged for different disease domains. Among the different factors that affect the use of mHealth interventions is the intention of end users to use the system. In this research, we aimed to fill the evidence gap by investigating mother’s intention to use text-message reminders for vaccination in north-west, Ethiopia.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 460 mothers presenting with their infants for vaccination at a health facility from October 1 to 26, 2018. A systematic random sampling technique was applied to select study participants. Data were collected using validated instrument. Descriptive statistics were computed and binary logistic regression analyses was used to assess factors associated with the outcome variable. The regression results were reported as AORs with their 95% CIs. Results: Of 456 mothers included for analysis, 360 (78.9%) with 95% CI: (74.9% - 82.4%) of mothers have intention to use mobile phone text message reminders for vaccination. Of these, 270 (75%) also wanted to receive the reminders a day before the vaccination due date for the child. The preferred language for receiving reminders was Amharic language (58.1%). Mothers aged 35 years and above [AOR = 0.352; 95%CI: 0.149- 0.833], secondary education and above [AOR= 4.428; 95% CI: 2.046- 9.580], mobile phone use for more than two years [AOR= 3.627; 95%CI: 1.657-7.938], perceived usefulness [AOR: 6.372; 95%CI: 3.128-12.981] and perceived ease of use [AOR: 3.847; 95%CI: 2.061- 7.180] were predictors of intention to use mobile phone text message reminders for vaccination.Conclusion: Majority of mothers have intention to use mobile phone text message reminders for child vaccination. Mother’s age, education, duration of mobile phone use, perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use were associated with intention of mothers to use mobile phone text message reminders for vaccination. Considering these predictors and user’s preference could inform the implementation strategy for use of the mHealth supported text messaging interventions in the resource limited setting of Ethiopia.

scholarly journals Measuring Mobile Phone Use: Self-Report Versus Log Data

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 508-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Boase ◽  
Rich Ling
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Log Data ◽  
Mobile Phone Use

Restricting mobile phone access during homework increases attainment of study goals

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chelsea M. Cutino ◽  
Michael A. Nees
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Self Report ◽  
General Tendency ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Problematic Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Study Session ◽  
Phone Access

Recent research has reported negative consequences, such as increased anxiety, associated with restricting people’s access to their mobile phones. These findings have led researchers to suggest that mobile phone use may pose a legitimately addictive behavior for some people. Other research has suggested negative effects of mobile phones on academic outcomes. To study the effects of phone separation on both anxiety and attainment of academic study goals, we randomly assigned participants ( N = 93) to a restricted mobile phone access condition or a control condition. After setting a list of goals for a study session, participants worked on their own, self-chosen class materials for 60 minutes. Anxiety was measured before and immediately following the study session. Attainment of study goals was assessed through a self-report estimate of the percent of study goals accomplished at the end of the session. We predicted that those who classified as high on a problematic mobile phone use scale and who had their phones taken away would show the greatest increases in anxiety over the session as well as the greatest deficits in attainment of study goals as compared to all other participants. While there was a general tendency for participants who scored higher on the problematic use scale to be more anxious, anxiety did not differ between participants with phone access and those without it. Participants without phone access self-reported attainment of 12% more of their study goals than those who had phones. This study qualified the conditions for which restricting mobile phone access increases anxiety and provided further empirical support for detriments to attainment of study goals when mobile phones are present.

scholarly journals Cohort profile: LIFEWORK, a prospective cohort study on occupational and environmental risk factors and health in the Netherlands

BMJ Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. e018504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marije Reedijk ◽  
Virissa Lenters ◽  
Pauline Slottje ◽  
Anouk Pijpe ◽  
Petra H Peeters ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Prospective Cohort ◽  
Weighted Kappa ◽  
Cancer Registries ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
Mobile Phone Use

PurposeLIFEWORK is a large federated prospective cohort established in the Netherlands to quantify the health effects of occupational and environmental exposures. This cohort is also the Dutch contribution to the international Cohort Study of Mobile Phone Use and Health (COSMOS). In this paper, we describe the study design, ongoing data collection, baseline characteristics of participants and the repeatability of key questionnaire items.Participants88 466 participants were enrolled in three cohort studies in 2011–2012. Exposure information was collected by a harmonised core questionnaire, or modelled based on occupational and residential histories; domains include air pollution (eg, nitrogen dioxide (NO2), particulate matter with diameter ≤2.5 µm (PM2.5)), noise, electromagnetic fields (EMF), mobile phone use, shift work and occupational chemical exposures. Chronic and subacute health outcomes are assessed by self-report and through linkage with health registries.Findings to dateParticipants had a median age of 51 years at baseline (range 19–87), and the majority are female (90%), with nurses being over-represented. Median exposure levels of NO2, PM2.5, EMF from base stations and noise at the participants’ home addresses at baseline were 22.9 µg/m3, 16.6 µg/m3, 0.003 mWm2and 53.1 dB, respectively. Twenty-two per cent of participants reported to have started using a mobile phone more than 10 years prior to baseline. Repeatability for self-reported exposures was moderate to high (weighted kappa range: 0.69–1) for a subset of participants (n=237) who completed the questionnaire twice.Future plansWe are actively and passively observing participants; we plan to administer a follow-up questionnaire every 4–5 years—the first follow-up will be completed in 2018—and linkage to cause-of-death and cancer registries occurs on a (bi)annual basis. This prospective cohort offers a unique, large and rich resource for research on contemporary occupational and environmental health risks and will contribute to the large international COSMOS study on mobile phone use and health.

scholarly journals Assessment of the Effectiveness of the Comprehensive Integrated HIV Prevention Program in Reducing Risky Sexual Behavior and Increasing Safe Sex Practice among Minority Young Adults: A Latent Growth Curve Model Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas N ◽  
Mongkuo MYB ◽  
Mongkuo MY
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Hiv Infection ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Risky Sexual Behavior ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
Disease Transmission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Concern

Aim: Since the early 1980s, sexual risk behaviors have become a severe public health concern in preventing the prevalence of HIV infection, especially among minority young adults. In the United States, minority young adults have higher than expected HIV infection than other racial groups. The spread of HIV infection among this vulnerable population has created a need to identify risk and protective factors, disease, and evidence-based prevention strategies to reduce disease transmission. The Comprehensive, Integrated HIV Prevention Program (CIHPP), is based on a derivative of the ecological epistemology framework that views risk factors as a multilevel concentric, including the individual, family, community, and societal levels. The framework asserts that any meaningful prevention strategy should examine these different levels and the effects on the population of interest. This study aims to assess the effectiveness of CIHPP in increasing sexual risk practice and reducing risky sexual behavior among minority young adults.

Effects of Mobile Phone Use on Sexual behavior of Youth in Andhra Pradesh

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mrs. T. Tripura Sundari
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Mobile Phone Use

Cell phones have gradually become an integral part of one's life. It is no astonish, which a comprehensive, research just released acknowledges mobile technology has coherently changed the style in which we truly love, live and work. Cell phones are now like mini computers and with gam consoles, high resolution still and video cameras, mailing systems, text messengers, carriers of fun and business information, helping within one's commercial and business transactions. The cell phone has made international long distance contacts easy, with ceaseless advance in technology, advanced and elaborated features added to the cell phones. In the past decade, mobile technology has altered the way youth communicate and interact with their peers. The development and modernization of this technology has made lives of youth easier and has brought about some problems and threats stemming from irresponsible use of mobile phones among teens and young adults. The whole youth population or student community is passing through chaos, disturbance and mental incapacitation. This study focuses on exploring the pattern of mobile phone usage among young adults in the State of Andhra Pradesh. It also attempts to examine the extent of sexual messaging and addictive sexual behavior through use of mobile phones. A face to face survey method was used to elicit the responses through a questionnaire. The survey was administered among 1200 students between the age group of 18-25 years. The data were analyzed with the help of statistical tools and techniques to draw meaningful inferences and conclusions.

scholarly journals A mixed methods investigation of implementation barriers and facilitators to a daily mobile phone sexual risk assessment for young women in Soweto, South Africa

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. e0231086
Author(s):  
Janan J. Dietrich ◽  
Stefanie Hornschuh ◽  
Mamakiri Khunwane ◽  
Lerato M. Makhale ◽  
Kennedy Otwombe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Barriers And Facilitators ◽  
Implementation Barriers

scholarly journals Mobile Phone Use “on the Road”: A Self-Report Study on Young Drivers

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelo Fraschetti ◽  
Pierluigi Cordellieri ◽  
Giulia Lausi ◽  
Emanuela Mari ◽  
Elena Paoli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Accident Risk ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
The Road ◽  
Young Drivers ◽  
On The Road

BackgroundExtensive research showed that multitasking negatively affects driving performance. Multitasking activities can range from talking and texting to listening to music; particularly among young drivers, multitasking behavior is caused mainly from mobile phone use while driving which is one of the main causes of road accidents.ObjectiveThe main purpose of this study was to investigate whether some variables (e.g., Sensation-Seeking, preferences of Multitasking) could affect mobile phone use while driving in young drivers and whether any gender differences were present among the examined variables.Setting and participantsThe sample consists of 424 Italian students (56% males) with an age range of 18–21 years. A self-report questionnaire was specifically developed to assess variables such as: Attitude toward Multitasking, Perceived Self-efficacy in Multitasking, Accident Risk Perception, General Multitasking Habits, and Sensation Seeking.ResultsThrough SEM modeling, we found the attitude to multitasking while driving to be largely explained by the considered variables. Using multigroup analysis (MGSEM), the model we developed appears to be suitable for explaining the behaviors of both male and female young drivers. Furthermore, data comparison showed that females were more likely to risk perception toward multitasking, and risk perception when using a mobile phone while driving, while males obtained higher mean scores in Sensation Seeking, Perceived Self-Efficacy in Multitasking, and in Multitasking caused by mobile phone use while driving.ConclusionOur research showed how some variables may influence the inclination of some subjects to engage in multitasking while driving. Furthermore, we discussed the importance of considering these variables in the implementation of effective road safety education projects on driving multitasking.

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