A smartphone-based self-care application for patients with urinary tract stones: identification of information content and functional capabilities

Table 2 Comparison of differences in the mean score of information needs assessment and application capabilities

	Layer	Information elements	P-value	Application capabilities	P-value
Location of stone	Kidney	75.05 ± 6.86	0.038	31.55 ± 4.78	0.28
	Urethra	71.0 ± 3.28		35.50 ± 1.09
	Both	78.0 ± 0.09		33.0 ± 0.09
Treatment history	Self-care	74.59 ± 5.56	0.48	27.59 ± 3.56	0.001
	Surgery	74.15 ± 6.67		33.96 ± 2.27
	No treatment	76.1 ± 7.41		34.65 ± 3.39
History of medication use	Yes	74.64 ± 7.66	0.69	33.56 ± 2.31	0.08
History of medication use	No	75.22 ± 6.12	0.69	31.34 ± 4.91	0.08
Comorbidity	Yes	74.00 ± 8.04	0.59	32.95 ± 2.81	0.55
Comorbidity	No	75.34 ± 6.1	0.59	31.62 ± 4.89	0.55
Type of stone	Identified	74.4 ± 2.17	0.03	31.2 ± 2.44	0.003
Type of stone	Unidentified	75.43 ± 7.89	0.03	32.34 ± 5.24	0.003

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