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Hello, we are students from the University of Cambridge looking into opportunities for a patient-centric app for disease monitoring. We would be glad if you give us 5 minutes to answering the following question.

All participant responses will be kept anonymous. By completing the questionnaire, the respondent agrees that the anonymised data may be used in the publication of the results and shared with other academics and research partners for research purposes only. 

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* 1. How old are you?

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* 2. Which country do you live in?

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* 3. How recently were you diagnosed with Gout?

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* 4. How confident are you about the causes of a gout attack?

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* 5. How often do you experience a gout attack which requires medicine treatment?

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* 6. Do you track your purine intake?

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* 7. How much time a day are you willing to spend on tracking your daily purine intake with an app?

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* 8. Are you willing to use a smartphone application to help monitor your gout symptoms and treatment?

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* 9. Which of the following features for gout monitoring would you find the most useful in a smartphone application? Please order from most to least useful

  1. Reminders for taking medications, scheduling appointments, doing exercises.
  2. Personalised joint friendly exercises guide.
  3. Purine information food database.
  4. Symptoms and other data tracking(body weight, purine intake, meals, water consumptions...)
  5. Activity tracking by connecting to external sources e.g. apple health, fitbit, strava
  6. Ability to share data with your doctor to influence treatment.
  7. A discussion forum to connect with other gout patients and GP.
  8. Up to date news related to gout.
  9. Personalised low purine dietary recommendations.

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* 10. Are there any other features not listed which you feel useful?

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* 11. How much money are you willing to spend on a gout self-managing app as a one-off payment?

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* 12. Are you currently using an app to track your gout condition?

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* 13. Thank you for taking the survey with us!

Is there anything else you would like to add that you feel would be helpful for those with gout, or any thoughts you feel were not already addressed?

If you have any further comments please feel free to contact us at Cambridge University at either of the following email addresses:
Tianai Chen: tc572@cam.ac.uk
Liseli Sumbwanyambe: lns24@cam.ac.uk

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