Chronic urticaria patients are interested in apps to monitor their disease activity and control: A UCARE CURICT analysis
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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.
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- Authors
- Cherrez‐Ojeda, I., Vanegas, E., Cherrez, A., Felix, M., Weller, K., Magerl, M., Maurer, R. R., Mata, V. L., Kasperska‐Zajac, A., Sikora, A., Fomina, D., Kovalkova, E., Godse, K., Rao, N. D., Khoshkhui, M., Rastgoo, S., Criado, R. F. J., Abuzakouk, M., Grandon, D., Van Doorn, M. B. A., Rodrigues Valle, S. O., De Souza Lima, E. M., Thomsen, S. F., Ramón, G. D., Matos Benavides, E. E., Bauer, A., Giménez‐Arnau, A. M., Kocatürk, E., Guillet, C., Larco, J. I., Zhao, Z., Makris, M., Ritchie, C., Xepapadaki, P., Ensina, L. F., Cherrez, S., & Maurer, M.
- Affiliations
- Universidad Espíritu Santo Samborondón Ecuador
- Universidad Espíritu Santo (EC)
- Respiralab Respiralab Research Group Guayaquil Ecuador
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
- European Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Urticaria Medical University of Silesia Katowice Poland
- Medical University of Silesia (PL)
- Sechenov University (RU)
- City Center of Allergy and Immunology Clinical City Hospital #52 Moscow Russia
- DY Patil Deemed to be University (IN)
- Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (IR)
- Faculdade de Medicina do ABC (BR)
- Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (AE)
- Department of Dermatology Erasmus MC Rotterdam The Netherlands
- Department of Internal Medicine Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho Rio de Janeiro Brazil
- Faculty of Science and Health of Juiz de Fora ‐ SUPREMA ‐ Minas Gerais Rio de Janeiro Brazil
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Instituto de Alergia e Inmunología del Sur, Bahía Blanca Buenos Aires Argentina
- Centro de Referencia de Alergia Asma e Inmunología ‐ Instituto Nacional del Niño Lima Peru
- University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus (DE)
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)
- Koç University (TR)
- University Hospital Zurich (CH)
- Allergy Department Clinica San Felipe Lima Peru
- Department of Dermatology and Venereology Peking University First Hospital Beijing China
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR)
- Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires (AR)
- Federal University of São Paulo São Paulo Brazil
- ORCID
- 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 Magalhães
- Thomsen, Simon Francis
- Ramón, German D.
- Matos Benavides, Edgar E.
- Bauer, Andrea
- Giménez‐Arnau, Ana M.
- Kocatürk, Emek
- Guillet, Carole
- Larco, Jose Ignacio
- Zhao, Zuo‐Tao
- Makris, Michael
- Ritchie, Carla
- Xepapadaki, Paraskevi
- Ensina, Luis Felipe
- Cherrez, Sofia
- Maurer, Marcus
- Venue
- Clinical and Translational Allergy
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2021-12
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- e12089-e12089
- ISSN
- 2045-7022 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC8684305
- OpenAlex
- W4200153944
- Cited by
- 23
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 2
- FWCI
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- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Rheumatology › Urticaria and Related Conditions
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Keywords
- chronic urticaria, mobile health apps, patient interests, disease activity monitoring, disease control, chronic spontaneous urticaria, chronic inducible urticaria, patient-reported outcomes
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