Mobile Phone Ownership Is Not a Serious Barrier to Participation in Studies: Descriptive Study

Mobile Phone Ownership Is Not a Serious Barrier to Participation in Studies: Descriptive Study

BACKGROUND Rather than providing participants with study-specific data collection devices, their personal mobile phones are increasingly being used as a means for collecting geolocation and ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data in public health research. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to (1) describe the sociodemographic characteristics of respondents to an online survey screene...

Asthma is a Serious Danger

  میزان مرگ و میر آسم طی دهه گذشته بطور چشمگیری تغییر کرده است. با مبتلا کردن ۱۵ میلیون آمریکایی میزان مرگ و میر در سال ۱۹۷۸، به رقم ۱۸۷۲ نفر و ۹ سال بعد، به بیش از ۴۰۰۰ نفر رسید. علت چنین افزایش چشمگیری روشن نیست. علل احتمالی عبارتند از کاهش ظرفیت تنفس، استفاده بیش از حد از داروهای استثنائی و استنباط غلط بیماران و نیز مراکز درمانی نسبت به شدت بیماری است. بررسی دقیق، معالجات مناسب و آموزش به ب...

Mobile phone ownership among Nigerians with diabetes.

BACKGROUND A survey was undertaken to determine the number of individuals who have access to Mobile phones among those attending our Diabetes clinic in order to explore whether this could replace or become an adjunct to street home address as contact information. METHOD An observer-based questionnaire was administered to capture parameters of interest at the weekly diabetes clinic in order to...

It is a phone not a console ! GDC Mobile 2005

You've all heard it before mobile gaming will be huge because everybody has a mobile phone. However, how can mass-market mobile phones ever compete with handheld game decks such as the Sony PSP and Nintendo Gameboy? These companies have industry know-how, strong gaming brands and large market shares, good marketing engines, interfaces optimized for gaming, better graphics, no device compatibili...

Subjective Symptoms Related to GSM Radiation from Mobile Phone Base Stations: a cross-sectional study