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Digital health for chronic disease management: An exploratory method to investigating technology adoption potential
INTRODUCTION: The availability of consumer-facing health technologies for chronic disease management is skyrocketing, yet most are limited by low adoption rates. Improving adoption requires a better understanding of a target population’s previous exposure to technology. We propose a low-resource app...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10101441/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37053272 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284477 |
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author | Nittas, Vasileios Zecca, Chiara Kamm, Christian P. Kuhle, Jens Chan, Andrew von Wyl, Viktor |
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description | INTRODUCTION: The availability of consumer-facing health technologies for chronic disease management is skyrocketing, yet most are limited by low adoption rates. Improving adoption requires a better understanding of a target population’s previous exposure to technology. We propose a low-resource approach of capturing and clustering technology exposure, as a mean to better understand patients and target health technologies. METHODS: Using Multiple Sclerosis (MS) as a case study, we applied exploratory multivariate factorial analyses to survey data from the Swiss MS Registry. We calculated individual-level factor scorings, aiming to investigate possible technology adoption clusters with similar digital behavior patterns. The resulting clusters were transformed using radar and then compared across sociodemographic and health status characteristics. RESULTS: Our analysis included data from 990 respondents, resulting in three clusters, which we defined as the (1) average users, (2) health-interested users, and (3) low frequency users. The average user uses consumer-facing technology regularly, mainly for daily, regular activities and less so for health-related purposes. The health-interested user also uses technology regularly, for daily activities as well as health-related purposes. The low-frequency user uses technology infrequently. CONCLUSIONS: Only about 10% of our sample has been regularly using (adopting) consumer-facing technology for MS and health-related purposes. That might indicate that many of the current consumer-facing technologies for MS are only attractive to a small proportion of patients. The relatively low-resource exploratory analyses proposed here may allow for a better characterization of prospective user populations and ultimately, future patient-facing technologies that will be targeted to a broader audience. |
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spelling | pubmed-101014412023-04-14 Digital health for chronic disease management: An exploratory method to investigating technology adoption potential Nittas, Vasileios Zecca, Chiara Kamm, Christian P. Kuhle, Jens Chan, Andrew von Wyl, Viktor PLoS One Research Article INTRODUCTION: The availability of consumer-facing health technologies for chronic disease management is skyrocketing, yet most are limited by low adoption rates. Improving adoption requires a better understanding of a target population’s previous exposure to technology. We propose a low-resource approach of capturing and clustering technology exposure, as a mean to better understand patients and target health technologies. METHODS: Using Multiple Sclerosis (MS) as a case study, we applied exploratory multivariate factorial analyses to survey data from the Swiss MS Registry. We calculated individual-level factor scorings, aiming to investigate possible technology adoption clusters with similar digital behavior patterns. The resulting clusters were transformed using radar and then compared across sociodemographic and health status characteristics. RESULTS: Our analysis included data from 990 respondents, resulting in three clusters, which we defined as the (1) average users, (2) health-interested users, and (3) low frequency users. The average user uses consumer-facing technology regularly, mainly for daily, regular activities and less so for health-related purposes. The health-interested user also uses technology regularly, for daily activities as well as health-related purposes. The low-frequency user uses technology infrequently. CONCLUSIONS: Only about 10% of our sample has been regularly using (adopting) consumer-facing technology for MS and health-related purposes. That might indicate that many of the current consumer-facing technologies for MS are only attractive to a small proportion of patients. The relatively low-resource exploratory analyses proposed here may allow for a better characterization of prospective user populations and ultimately, future patient-facing technologies that will be targeted to a broader audience. Public Library of Science 2023-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10101441/ /pubmed/37053272 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284477 Text en © 2023 Nittas et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Nittas, Vasileios Zecca, Chiara Kamm, Christian P. Kuhle, Jens Chan, Andrew von Wyl, Viktor Digital health for chronic disease management: An exploratory method to investigating technology adoption potential |
title | Digital health for chronic disease management: An exploratory method to investigating technology adoption potential |
title_full | Digital health for chronic disease management: An exploratory method to investigating technology adoption potential |
title_fullStr | Digital health for chronic disease management: An exploratory method to investigating technology adoption potential |
title_full_unstemmed | Digital health for chronic disease management: An exploratory method to investigating technology adoption potential |
title_short | Digital health for chronic disease management: An exploratory method to investigating technology adoption potential |
title_sort | digital health for chronic disease management: an exploratory method to investigating technology adoption potential |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10101441/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37053272 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284477 |
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