Population subgroup differences in the use of a COVID-19 chatbot.


Journal

NPJ digital medicine
ISSN: 2398-6352
Titre abrégé: NPJ Digit Med
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101731738

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
19 Feb 2021
Historique:
received: 06 08 2020
accepted: 21 01 2021
entrez: 20 2 2021
pubmed: 21 2 2021
medline: 21 2 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

COVID-19 chatbots are widely used to screen for symptoms and disseminate information about the virus, yet little is known about the population subgroups that interact with this technology and the specific features that are used. An analysis of 1,000,740 patients invited to use a COVID-19 chatbot, 69,451 (6.94%) of which agreed to participate, shows differences in chatbot feature use by gender, race, and age. These results can inform future public health COVID-19 symptom screening and information dissemination strategies.

Identifiants

pubmed: 33608660
doi: 10.1038/s41746-021-00405-8
pii: 10.1038/s41746-021-00405-8
pmc: PMC7895981
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

30

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Auteurs

Laura C Schubel (LC)

MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, Washington, DC, USA.

Deliya B Wesley (DB)

MedStar Health Research Institute, Hyattsville, MD, USA.

Ethan Booker (E)

MedStar Telehealth Innovation Center, Washington, DC, USA.

John Lock (J)

MedStar Health, Columbia, MD, USA.

Raj M Ratwani (RM)

MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, Washington, DC, USA. Raj.M.Ratwani@medstar.net.

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