The Attitude of Mobile Apps and It Impact in Health and Life Services Through Pandemic (Covid-19) In Iraq National Survey

Abstract

Through and after the quarantine period of the COVID-19 epidemic, Mobile Applications developed for different purposes and goals, such as contacts and patient tracing, digital services, monitoring and testing, epidemiological research, and quarantine compliance. The main aim of this study is to highlight the effect of mobile pandemic applications in Iraqi society and the trustworthiness of developers and distributors of apps. To this end, we explored differences in the attitudes of smartphone users toward pandemic apps and shared the data to conduct research. The method adopted to achieve the Survey in this study is an Email and telephone-based Survey of (318) participants adults over 18 years old in Iraq. We used a total of (315) for Statistical Analysis. This 9-item Survey examined the current use of epidemic applications, motivations for using them, trust in app distributors, data handling, willingness to share coded data with researchers using a pandemic app, attitudes toward app use among people, demographics, and personal characteristics. The results of this study showed that most participants stated they were using smartphones (307/315, 97.5), but only (77/307, 24.4) were using pandemic apps on their smartphones. Intriguingly, in this Survey, when participants asked for the preferable organizations for storing data and application division, trust in federal or state government, regional health office, public-appointed such as statutory health insurance, or government-funded organizations (research institutes) was much higher than in private organizations (private research institutions, clinics, health insurances, information technology companies). © University of Garmian. All Rights Reserved.