Use and perceptions of digital technology for daily life, physical activity and health information among former cardiac rehabilitation patients in Austria: A cross-sectional survey

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  Figure 1.. Use of digital technology in daily life and for physical activity: (a) Response rate to question ‘If you think about your internet use (including Apps on your smartphone or tablet), how many hours do you use the internet for personal use in a typical week?’ (b) Most frequently (≥20% of participants) recorded uses of technology in response to ‘I use digital technology for…’ (less frequent responses were ‘Other Apps’ and ‘Status update posting’) (c) Comparing response rates of question ‘What digital technology do you use most frequently in daily life?’ to question ‘What digital technology do you use for physical activity and exercise?’ For (b and c), multiple responses were permissible *p < .001.

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  Figure 2.. Use of internet for health information, N = total sample size (multiple responses permissible): (a) Eight most frequently searched health topics in response to question ‘During the past 3 months, which of the following health information did you obtain from the internet and for what purpose?’ (b) Comparing response rates of question ‘In the past 3 months, what sources of information on the internet have you used to obtain health information, and how would you rate the information you found?’ to response ‘Yes, trustworthy information’.

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  Figure 3.. Perceptions of digital technology for physical activity purposes (schematic diagram according to thematic analysis of free-text responses); multiple responses permissible per participant (N = total sample size, n = number of response occurrences): (a) Response to question ‘State your personal reasons for using digital technologies for physical activity’; (b) ‘Give your personal reasons why you do NOT use digital technologies for physical activity’; (c) ‘If you could wish for an ideal digital technology to help you engage in regular heart-healthy exercise and sports, what would it look like?’.

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  Figure 4.. Responses to multiple-choice question ‘What features should a digital technology ideally have so that you would use it to support your physical activity?’.

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  Figure 5.. Response distribution of data privacy questions. Responses provided on a 5-point Likert scale from 1 (does not apply to me at all) to 5 (fully applies to me) in response to the question ‘Please indicate to what extent the following statements apply to you’. Frequency count (number of participants) is reported on the y-axis.