Publications by authors named "Christine Balague"

This cross-sectional descriptive study aims to (1) describe the current digital technology (DT) use of people with chronic diseases (CD) by identifying different user profiles and (2) determine whether those profiles have specific characteristics regarding health-related variables and patient-doctor relationship quality (RQ). An online questionnaire assessing the uses of multiple types of DT (the Internet, mobile applications and connected devices) and several dimensions related to health and patient-doctor RQ was completed by 954 individuals living with CD. DT user groups were obtained by k-means cluster analysis and then compared using Mann-Whitney tests.

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