Open AccessPerceptions and knowledge toward mobile-health among the college going students in Coastal South India
Author(s) -
Prasanna Mithra Parthaje,
Bhaskaran Unnikrishnan,
Rekha Thapar,
Nithin Kumar,
Elizabeth Josy Panikulam,
Elina Geroge,
Prajwal Pai,
Vaman Kulkarni,
Ramesh Holla,
B B Darshan,
Avinash Kumar,
Rohil Mehta,
Ratna Jay
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of natural science, biology and medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.236
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 2229-7707
pISSN - 0976-9668
DOI - 10.4103/0976-9668.175078
Subject(s) - mhealth , mobile phone , confidentiality , medical education , perception , phone , psychology , medicine , family medicine , nursing , computer science , telecommunications , linguistics , philosophy , computer security , neuroscience , psychological intervention
Among the manifold uses of mobile phones, mobile-health (mHealth) has been an important one, which is the practice of public health initiatives by awareness raising and communication campaigns. Optimum utilization of mHealth is possible only through adequate awareness. Hence, we aimed to study the perceptions and knowledge about mHealth among college going students in Mangalore, India.