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Determinants of mHealth success: An empirical investigation of the user perspective
Mobile health (mHealth) applications have become an important tool to support public health, especially in times of increased health awareness in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is still uncertainty about what factors determine successful mHealth services from the users’ perspecti...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9756086/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36540093 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102351 |
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author | Birkmeyer, Steven Wirtz, Bernd W. Langer, Paul F. |
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description | Mobile health (mHealth) applications have become an important tool to support public health, especially in times of increased health awareness in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is still uncertainty about what factors determine successful mHealth services from the users’ perspective. Based on the results of a systematic literature review, a qualitative content analysis of available apps and semi-structured user and expert interviews, we derive a structural model with antecedents on user attitudes towards mHealth and user satisfaction with the mHealth application. These variables determine users’ intention to continue using the application and their intention to recommend it to others. For verification, we tested the model with a sample of 249 German mHealth users from the “MyFitnessPal” community using structural equation modelling and found that all derived path relations have significant coefficients. |
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spelling | pubmed-97560862022-12-16 Determinants of mHealth success: An empirical investigation of the user perspective Birkmeyer, Steven Wirtz, Bernd W. Langer, Paul F. Int J Inf Manage Research Article Mobile health (mHealth) applications have become an important tool to support public health, especially in times of increased health awareness in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is still uncertainty about what factors determine successful mHealth services from the users’ perspective. Based on the results of a systematic literature review, a qualitative content analysis of available apps and semi-structured user and expert interviews, we derive a structural model with antecedents on user attitudes towards mHealth and user satisfaction with the mHealth application. These variables determine users’ intention to continue using the application and their intention to recommend it to others. For verification, we tested the model with a sample of 249 German mHealth users from the “MyFitnessPal” community using structural equation modelling and found that all derived path relations have significant coefficients. Elsevier Ltd. 2021-08 2021-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9756086/ /pubmed/36540093 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102351 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Birkmeyer, Steven Wirtz, Bernd W. Langer, Paul F. Determinants of mHealth success: An empirical investigation of the user perspective |
title | Determinants of mHealth success: An empirical investigation of the user perspective |
title_full | Determinants of mHealth success: An empirical investigation of the user perspective |
title_fullStr | Determinants of mHealth success: An empirical investigation of the user perspective |
title_full_unstemmed | Determinants of mHealth success: An empirical investigation of the user perspective |
title_short | Determinants of mHealth success: An empirical investigation of the user perspective |
title_sort | determinants of mhealth success: an empirical investigation of the user perspective |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9756086/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36540093 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102351 |
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