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Factors Influencing the Aged in the Use of Mobile Healthcare Applications: An Empirical Study in China
Mobile healthcare applications are of significant potential value in the development of the aged-care industry due to their great convenience, high efficiency, and low cost. Since the cognition and utilization rates of mobile healthcare applications for the elderly are still low, this study explored...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9914473/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36766970 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11030396 |
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author | Wang, Xiang Lee, Chang-Franw Jiang, Jiabei Zhu, Xiaoyang |
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description | Mobile healthcare applications are of significant potential value in the development of the aged-care industry due to their great convenience, high efficiency, and low cost. Since the cognition and utilization rates of mobile healthcare applications for the elderly are still low, this study explored the factors that affect the elderly’s adoption of mobile healthcare applications. This study conducted a questionnaire survey on the elderly in China and received 365 valuable responses. This study combined the technology acceptance model, protection motivation theory, and perceived risk theory to build a research model of factors affecting the use of mobile healthcare applications by the elderly. The data were analyzed using a structural equation model. The results were as follows: according to the empirical research, (1) perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use positively affect the use attitude of the elderly; perceived usefulness and user attitude positively affect the behavior intention of the elderly; perceived ease of use positively affects perceived usefulness; (2) perceived severity has a significant positive correlation with use attitude; perceived susceptibility and attitude to use have no significant impact; (3) perceived risk is negatively correlated with the use attitude and behavioral intention. The above-mentioned factors should be taken into consideration during the development of mobile healthcare applications for the aged to upgrade the overall service quality of mobile healthcare applications, thus enhancing the operational level of mobile healthcare applications and the health literacy of the aged. |
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spelling | pubmed-99144732023-02-11 Factors Influencing the Aged in the Use of Mobile Healthcare Applications: An Empirical Study in China Wang, Xiang Lee, Chang-Franw Jiang, Jiabei Zhu, Xiaoyang Healthcare (Basel) Article Mobile healthcare applications are of significant potential value in the development of the aged-care industry due to their great convenience, high efficiency, and low cost. Since the cognition and utilization rates of mobile healthcare applications for the elderly are still low, this study explored the factors that affect the elderly’s adoption of mobile healthcare applications. This study conducted a questionnaire survey on the elderly in China and received 365 valuable responses. This study combined the technology acceptance model, protection motivation theory, and perceived risk theory to build a research model of factors affecting the use of mobile healthcare applications by the elderly. The data were analyzed using a structural equation model. The results were as follows: according to the empirical research, (1) perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use positively affect the use attitude of the elderly; perceived usefulness and user attitude positively affect the behavior intention of the elderly; perceived ease of use positively affects perceived usefulness; (2) perceived severity has a significant positive correlation with use attitude; perceived susceptibility and attitude to use have no significant impact; (3) perceived risk is negatively correlated with the use attitude and behavioral intention. The above-mentioned factors should be taken into consideration during the development of mobile healthcare applications for the aged to upgrade the overall service quality of mobile healthcare applications, thus enhancing the operational level of mobile healthcare applications and the health literacy of the aged. MDPI 2023-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9914473/ /pubmed/36766970 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11030396 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Wang, Xiang Lee, Chang-Franw Jiang, Jiabei Zhu, Xiaoyang Factors Influencing the Aged in the Use of Mobile Healthcare Applications: An Empirical Study in China |
title | Factors Influencing the Aged in the Use of Mobile Healthcare Applications: An Empirical Study in China |
title_full | Factors Influencing the Aged in the Use of Mobile Healthcare Applications: An Empirical Study in China |
title_fullStr | Factors Influencing the Aged in the Use of Mobile Healthcare Applications: An Empirical Study in China |
title_full_unstemmed | Factors Influencing the Aged in the Use of Mobile Healthcare Applications: An Empirical Study in China |
title_short | Factors Influencing the Aged in the Use of Mobile Healthcare Applications: An Empirical Study in China |
title_sort | factors influencing the aged in the use of mobile healthcare applications: an empirical study in china |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9914473/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36766970 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11030396 |
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