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Background  China has had about 1.2 billion mobile-phone users, and this number continues to grow. However, mobile-health services (mHealth) are currently in the initial stage, and have not yet prevailed in China. Additionally, the prevalence of Parkinson’s disease (PD) in China is 1700/100,000 (≥65 years). Indeed, these PD patients would benefit from mHealth to manage their disease. Therefore, we designed a study to determine attitudes toward smartphone applications (apps) for chronic condition self-management, and to discover the practicality of these apps among PD patients in China.    Methods  We selected 204 participants with PD between 52 and 87 years old and surveyed their attitudes concerning the use of smartphone apps for chronic condition management via questionnaires.    Results  Among the participants, 65.19% had smartphones. Among these smartphone users, 82.84% expressed a preference for using apps for PD management. This group tended to be younger and more frequent web users with higher education and better medication compliance, and they tended to have a longer PD course and worse conditions ( P  < 0.001,  P =  0.001,  P  < 0.001,  P  = 0.041,  P  < 0.001,  P  = 0.013). Additionally, the willingness to apply apps for PD self-management was positively related to education ( P  < 0.001) and negatively related to age and PD course ( P  = 0.017,  P  < 0.001).    Conclusion  In China, patients with PD have a generally positive attitude towards self-management through smartphone apps. Consequently, improving the coverage of smartphones with practical and handy apps is a promising strategy for PD self-management.

Acceptability and practicability of self-management for patients with Parkinson’s disease based on smartphone applications in China