Table 3 Usage of Smartphone Health & Medical Applications and Attitudes towards Health/Medical applications among participants
| Â | Students | Employees | Total | p-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
Using smartphone | 462 | 53.9 | 128 | 100.0 | 590 | 57.4 | Â |
Download health-related applications | 67 | 14.5 | 16 | 12.5 | 83 | 14.1 | 0.56 |
Type of applications | |||||||
 Beauty counselling | 34 | 50.7 | 13 | 81.3 | 47 | 56.6 | 0.04 |
 Nutrition counselling | 29 | 43.3 | 11 | 68.8 | 40 | 48.2 | 0.06 |
 Disease prevention counselling | 42 | 62.7 | 13 | 81.3 | 55 | 66.3 | 0.15 |
 Disease treatment counselling | 34 | 50.7 | 10 | 62.5 | 44 | 53.0 | 0.27 |
 Others | 9 | 13.4 | 1 | 6.3 | 10 | 12.0 | 0.57 |
Perceived benefits of health-related applications for health | |||||||
 Very useful | 46 | 68.7 | 9 | 56.3 | 55 | 66.4 | 0.41 |
 Neutral | 18 | 26.9 | 5 | 31.3 | 23 | 27.7 |  |
 Not useful | 3 | 4.5 | 2 | 12.5 | 5 | 6.0 |  |
Satisfaction with mobile health applications/ services | |||||||
 Very satisfied | 35 | 52.2 | 5 | 31.3 | 40 | 48.2 | 0.26 |
 Neutral | 27 | 40.3 | 10 | 62.5 | 37 | 44.6 |  |
 Dissatisfied | 5 | 7.5 | 1 | 6.3 | 6 | 7.2 |  |
Time to use mobile phone per day | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Â |
 For calling (hour) | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 1.1 | < 0.01 |
 For texting (hour) | 2.4 | 11.5 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 2.2 | 10.3 | 0.23 |
 For others (game, watching movies,…) (hour) | 2.6 | 8.7 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 7.8 | 0.50 |
 For beauty counselling (minute) (n = 47) | 13.2 | 27.0 | 21.0 | 34.2 | 15.0 | 28.2 | 0.49 |
 For nutrition counselling (minute) (n = 40) | 19.2 | 68.4 | 18.0 | 36.0 | 18.6 | 60.0 | 0.93 |
 For disease prevention counselling (minute) (n = 55) | 12.6 | 24.6 | 20.4 | 64.2 | 13.8 | 36.0 | 0.43 |
 For disease treatment counselling (minute) (n = 44) | 16.2 | 37.8 | 11.4 | 16.8 | 15.0 | 33.0 | 0.63 |