Variable | Total | Residing in close proximity to specialist† | Residing further from specialist† | p value |
Availability of equipment |
Own computer with Internet access | 76.4 (73.3–79.3) | 80.2 (74.9–84.6) | 72.6 (68.8–76.1) | 0.02 |
Own a cell phone | 73.9 (70.7–76.8) | 75.6 (70.4–80.2) | 72.1 (68.0–75.9) | 0.3 |
Willingness to use technologies |
Video conferencing to interact with primary care provider | 50.4 (46.4–54.4) | 47.1 (40.2–54.1) | 53.8 (49.5– 58.1) | 0.1 |
Video conferencing to interact with specialist | 65.1 (61.4–68.6) | 60.1 (53.7–66.2) | 70.2 (66.4–73.7) | 0.006 |
Email to interact with specialist | 66.3 (63.0–69.5) | 69.0 (62.9–74.5) | 63.5 (59.7–67.2) | 0.1 |
Text messaging to interact with specialist | 44.9 (41.2–48.7) | 46.2 (39.8–52.7) | 43.6 (39.3–48.0) | 0.5 |
Threshold time saved for use of video conferencing, min‡ |
≤ 30 | 28.3 (23.9–33.0) | 30.6 (23.1–39.4) | 26.2 (21.5–31.5) | 0.04 |
31–60 | 21.4 (17.2–26.4) | 25.7 (18.2–35.0)§ | 17.7 (13.9–22.3) |
> 60 | 41.7 (36.9–46.7) | 34.1 (26.6–42.5) | 48.3 (42.8–53.9) |
Don’t know | 8.6 (6.5–11.4) | 9.6 (5.9–15.1)§ | 7.8 (5.5–10.9)§ |