Attitudes and preferences on the use of mobile health technology and health games for self-management: Interviews with older adults on anticoagulation therapy

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Lee, Jung Ah ^a   Nguyen, Annie Lu ^a   Berg, Jill ^a   Amin, Alpesh ^b   Bachman, Mark ^c   Guo, Yuqing ^a   Evangelista, Lorraine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation therapy; Health apps; Health games; Mobile health technology; Self management

Indexed keywords

EID: 85078661385     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.3196     Document Type: Article

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