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Purchase and use of home healthcare devices for the elderly: a pilot study in Shanghai, China

BACKGROUND: In China, home-based healthcare/rehabilitation has always been advocated by the government and is the most prevalent healthcare pattern. However, there is currently no data on how many each product has been purchased, and it is not clear what factors are associated with their use. The re...

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Autores principales: Wang, Duojin, Liu, Shiyu, Wu, Jing, Lin, Qinglian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7197117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32366229
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08757-8
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Wu, Jing
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description BACKGROUND: In China, home-based healthcare/rehabilitation has always been advocated by the government and is the most prevalent healthcare pattern. However, there is currently no data on how many each product has been purchased, and it is not clear what factors are associated with their use. The research aims to clarify the current practices and attitudes of the elderly on such matters, and further analyze their influence factors. METHODS: This pilot study consisted of two-round regional survey, conducted from July 25 to August 3, 2015 and July 20 to August 10, 2018 respectively. Both surveys released on-site paper questionnaires and collected after filling out in different communities. RESULTS: Two hundred forty-four valid questionnaires from 52 communities were collected. Compared with 2015 (30.8%), the number of people who did not purchase home healthcare devices in the same area decreased in 2018 (28.2%). Hemopiezometer (44.3%), glucometer (18.4%), massager (21.3%) and walking devices (19.3%) are the four main types of products that urbanites are most willing to buy. In addition, users’ age group, education level, and income level were significantly correlated with the purchase of certain products. CONCLUSIONS: The types of home healthcare devices purchased by respondents are consistent with the distribution of chronic diseases of urban residents in China. The analysis of product brands also revealed the existing problems and huge growth space of the industry market, which also requires the government to introduce relevant policies and measures to regulate the market and accelerate the development of the industry.
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spelling pubmed-71971172020-05-08 Purchase and use of home healthcare devices for the elderly: a pilot study in Shanghai, China Wang, Duojin Liu, Shiyu Wu, Jing Lin, Qinglian BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: In China, home-based healthcare/rehabilitation has always been advocated by the government and is the most prevalent healthcare pattern. However, there is currently no data on how many each product has been purchased, and it is not clear what factors are associated with their use. The research aims to clarify the current practices and attitudes of the elderly on such matters, and further analyze their influence factors. METHODS: This pilot study consisted of two-round regional survey, conducted from July 25 to August 3, 2015 and July 20 to August 10, 2018 respectively. Both surveys released on-site paper questionnaires and collected after filling out in different communities. RESULTS: Two hundred forty-four valid questionnaires from 52 communities were collected. Compared with 2015 (30.8%), the number of people who did not purchase home healthcare devices in the same area decreased in 2018 (28.2%). Hemopiezometer (44.3%), glucometer (18.4%), massager (21.3%) and walking devices (19.3%) are the four main types of products that urbanites are most willing to buy. In addition, users’ age group, education level, and income level were significantly correlated with the purchase of certain products. CONCLUSIONS: The types of home healthcare devices purchased by respondents are consistent with the distribution of chronic diseases of urban residents in China. The analysis of product brands also revealed the existing problems and huge growth space of the industry market, which also requires the government to introduce relevant policies and measures to regulate the market and accelerate the development of the industry. BioMed Central 2020-05-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7197117/ /pubmed/32366229 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08757-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Wu, Jing
Lin, Qinglian
Purchase and use of home healthcare devices for the elderly: a pilot study in Shanghai, China
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title_fullStr Purchase and use of home healthcare devices for the elderly: a pilot study in Shanghai, China
title_full_unstemmed Purchase and use of home healthcare devices for the elderly: a pilot study in Shanghai, China
title_short Purchase and use of home healthcare devices for the elderly: a pilot study in Shanghai, China
title_sort purchase and use of home healthcare devices for the elderly: a pilot study in shanghai, china
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7197117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32366229
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08757-8
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