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1. How are patients with chronic urticaria interested in using information and communication technologies to guide their healthcare? A UCARE study

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Ivan Cherrez-Ojeda, Emanuel Vanegas, Annia Cherrez, Miguel Felix, Karsten Weller, Markus Magerl, Rasmus Robin Maurer, Valeria L. Mata, Alicja Kasperska-Zajac, Agnieszka Sikora, Daria Fomina, Elena Kovalkova, Kiran Godse, Nimmagadda Dheeraj Rao, Maryam Khoshkhui, Sahar Rastgoo, Roberta FJ. Criado, Mohamed Abuzakouk, Deepa Grandon, Martijn B.A. Van Doorn, Solange Oliveira Rodrigues Valle, Eduardo Magalhães De Souza Lima, Simon Francis Thomsen, German D. Ramón, Edgar E. Matos Benavides, Andrea Bauer, Ana M. Giménez-Arnau, Emek Kocatürk, Carole Guillet, Jose Ignacio Larco, Zuo-Tao Zhao, Michael Makris, Carla Ritchie, Paraskevi Xepapadaki, Luis Felipe Ensina, Sofia Cherrez, and Marcus Maurer

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Chronic urticaria, Information and communication technologies, Internet, e-mail, WhatsApp, Immunologic diseases. Allergy, RC581-607
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Background: Patients with chronic urticaria (CU) are increasingly using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to manage their health. What CU patients expect from ICTs and which ICTs they prefer remains unknown. We assessed why CU patients use ICTs, which ones they prefer, and what drives their expectations and choices. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 1841 patients across 17 countries were recruited at UCAREs (Urticaria Centers of Reference and Excellence). Patients with CU who were >12 years old completed a 23-item questionnaire. Results: Most patients were interested in receiving disease information (87.3%), asking physicians about CU (84.1%), and communicating with other patients through ICTs (65.6%). For receiving disease information, patients preferred one-to-one and one-to-many ICTs, especially web browsers. One-to-one ICTs were also the ICTs of choice for asking physicians about urticaria and for communicating with other patients, and e-mail and WhatsApp were the preferred ICTs, respectively. Many-to-many ICTs such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter were least preferred for all 3 purposes. Living in rural areas and higher education were linked to higher odds of being interested in receiving disease information, asking physicians, and communicating with patients through ICTs. Conclusions: Most patients and especially patients with higher education who live in rural areas are interested in using ICTs for their healthcare, but prefer different ICTs for different purposes, ie, web browsers for obtaining information, e-mail for asking physicians, and WhatsApp for communicating with other patients. Our findings may help to improve ICTs for CU.

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2021
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2. Chronic urticaria patients are interested in apps to monitor their disease activity and control: A UCARE CURICT analysis

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Ivan Cherrez‐Ojeda, Emanuel Vanegas, Annia Cherrez, Miguel Felix, Karsten Weller, Markus Magerl, Rasmus Robin Maurer, Valeria L. Mata, Alicja Kasperska‐Zajac, Agnieszka Sikora, Daria Fomina, Elena Kovalkova, Kiran Godse, Nimmagadda Dheeraj Rao, Maryam Khoshkhui, Sahar Rastgoo, Roberta F. J. Criado, Mohamed Abuzakouk, Deepa Grandon, Martijn B. A. Van Doorn, Solange Oliveira Rodrigues Valle, Eduardo Magalhães De Souza Lima, Simon Francis Thomsen, German D. Ramón, Edgar E. Matos Benavides, Andrea Bauer, Ana M. Giménez‐Arnau, Emek Kocatürk, Carole Guillet, Jose Ignacio Larco, Zuo‐Tao Zhao, Michael Makris, Carla Ritchie, Paraskevi Xepapadaki, Luis Felipe Ensina, Sofia Cherrez, Marcus Maurer, Dermatology, Göncü, Özgür Emek Kocatürk (ORCID 0000-0003-2801-0959 & YÖK ID 217219), Cherrez-Ojeda, Ivan, Vanegas, Emanuel, Cherrez, Annia, Felix, Miguel, Weller, Karsten, Magerl, Markus, Maurer, Rasmus Robin, Mata, Valeria L., Kasperska-Zajac, Alicja, Sikora, Agnieszka, Fomina, Daria, Kovalkova, Elena, Godse, Kiran, Rao, Nimmagadda Dheeraj, Khoshkhui, Maryam, Rastgoo, Sahar, Criado, Roberta F. J., Abuzakouk, Mohamed, Grandon, Deepa, Van Doorn, Martijn B. A., Rodrigues Valle, Solange Oliveira, De Souza Lima, Eduardo Magalhaes, Thomsen, Simon Francis, Ramón, German D., Matos Benavides, Edgar E., Bauer, Andrea, Giménez-Arnau, Ana M., Guillet, Carole, Larco, Jose Ignacio, Zhao, Zuo-Tao, Makris, Michael, Ritchie, Carla, Xepapadaki, Paraskevi, Ensina, Luis Felipe, Cherrez, Sofia, Maurer, Marcus, School of Medicine, and Publica

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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, chronic inducible urticaria, chronic spontaneous urticaria, Apps, Chronic inducible urticaria, Chronic spontaneous urticaria, Chronic urticaria, UCARE, Allergy, apps, Immunology, chronische urtikaria, RC581-607, chronische induzierbare urtikaria, chronic urticaria, Immunology and Allergy, chronische spontane urtikaria, Original Article, Immunologic diseases. Allergy
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Background: information/communication technologies such as mobile phone applications (apps) would enable chronic urticaria (CU) patients to self-evaluate their disease activity and control. Yet, recently Antó et al (2021) reported a global paucity of such apps for patients with CU. In this analysis, we assessed patient interest in using apps to monitor CU disease activity and control using questions from the chronic urticaria information and communication technologies (CURICT) study. Methods: the methodology for CURICT has been reported. Briefly, a 23-item questionnaire was completed by 1841 CU patients from 17 UCAREs across 17 countries. Here, we analyzed patient responses to the CURICT questions on the use of apps for urticaria-related purposes. Results: as previously published, the majority of respondents had chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU; 63%; 18% chronic inducible urticaria (CIndU) [CIndu]; 19% with both), were female (70%) and in urban areas (75%). Over half of patients were very/extremely interested in an app to monitor disease activity (51%) and control (53%), while only ?1/10 were not. Patients with both urticaria types versus those with CSU only (odds ratio [OR], 1.36 [1.03-1.79]) and females versus males (OR [95% CI], 1.47 [1.17-1.85]) were more likely to be very to extremely interested in an app to assess disease control. Conclusions: overall, half of the patients with CU were very to extremely interested in using an app to assess their disease activity and control. Development of well-designed apps, specific to disease types (CSU, CIndU, CSU + CIndU, etc), validated by experts across platforms would help improve the management and possibly outcomes of CU treatment while providing important patient information to be used in future research. Keywords: UCARE; apps; chronic inducible urticaria; chronic spontaneous urticaria; chronic urticaria; chronische induzierbare urtikaria; chronische spontane urtikaria; chronische urtikaria., UCARE

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2021
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