“A Descriptive Study to Assess the Use of Health Apps Among Youth from Selected Areas of Pune City.”

Abstract

Introduction:  The use of  health apps or health applications is quickly becoming the new standard in the healthcare sector. Rapid technological development in the field of mobile health has opened up numerous avenues for remote care delivery and expedited care. Such apps on devices handle user provided or user-owned health related data. Anybody who is concerned about their well-being can utilize them to manage, enhance, or preserve own health.

Purpose of the study: to figure out how often youth utilize the health apps for their health benefits.

Material and Methods: The study conducted was non- experimental with Quantitative research approach. The population for the current study were the youngsters of age 18yrs – 25yrs. The data was collected from total of 200 samples using a self – structured questionnaire by non – probability sampling method. The informed consent was filled by the participants prior to filling the tool. The questionnaire consists of two sections mainly demographic section and main tool.

Result: The result shows that about 77% of the samples use the health applications for tracking, improving and maintaining their health. Among which 27.5 % uses fitness apps and 17.5% uses monitoring apps.

Conclusion: It was assumed that youth may be using the health app for improvement and management of their health and as per the findings that is 77% youth uses health app and they get benefited from using the same. The impact of the findings will spread more health awareness regarding usage of health apps and produces important health data for studies and public health campaign.