Understanding mHealth Adoption and Lifestyle Improvement: An Empirical Test of the Antecedents and Mediating Mechanisms.

IF 3.1 2区医学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Journal of Health Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-17 DOI:10.1080/10810730.2024.2303641

Piper Liping Liu

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Abstract

The potential of using mobile phones for health care service delivery has been well acknowledged. Despite that mobile health (mHealth) related research has proliferated in the past decade, mHealth is still in the fledgling stage with a low adoption rate. There is a research gap in understanding factors influencing mHealth adoption and examining the effects of mHealth use on health outcomes. The purpose of this study was thus to explore influential factors of mHealth use, and test mediation pathways through which mHealth use impacts healthy lifestyle behaviors (e.g. sleep, exercise, and social participation). Survey results from 432 online participants illustrate that performance expectancy, social influence, support conditions, and perceived reliability were significantly associated with mHealth use. However, the impact of effort expectancy on mHealth use was statistically nonsignificant. Moreover, the results indicate that mHealth use can not only contribute to the improvement of healthy lifestyle behaviors directly but also exert an impact through the mediating effect of health competence. Knowing what factors motivate people's mHealth use and how mHealth use contributes to lifestyle improvement can help trigger interventions to boost mHealth adoption and improve public health. Implications and limitations are discussed.

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了解移动保健的采用和生活方式的改善：前因和中介机制的实证检验。

利用移动电话提供医疗保健服务的潜力已得到广泛认可。尽管与移动医疗相关的研究在过去十年中激增，但移动医疗仍处于起步阶段，采用率较低。在了解影响移动医疗采用的因素以及研究移动医疗的使用对健康结果的影响方面，还存在研究空白。因此，本研究旨在探索移动医疗使用的影响因素，并测试移动医疗使用对健康生活方式行为（如睡眠、运动和社交参与）的中介途径。来自 432 名在线参与者的调查结果表明，绩效预期、社会影响、支持条件和感知可靠性与移动保健的使用有显著关联。然而，努力期望对移动医疗使用的影响在统计上并不明显。此外，研究结果表明，移动医疗的使用不仅能直接促进健康生活方式行为的改善，还能通过健康能力的中介效应产生影响。了解促使人们使用移动医疗的因素以及移动医疗如何促进生活方式的改善，有助于采取干预措施，促进移动医疗的应用，改善公众健康。本文还讨论了研究的意义和局限性。

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Journal of Health Communication Multiple-

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5.60

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4.50%

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期刊介绍： Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives is the leading journal covering the full breadth of a field that focuses on the communication of health information globally. Articles feature research on: • Developments in the field of health communication; • New media, m-health and interactive health communication; • Health Literacy; • Social marketing; • Global Health; • Shared decision making and ethics; • Interpersonal and mass media communication; • Advances in health diplomacy, psychology, government, policy and education; • Government, civil society and multi-stakeholder initiatives; • Public Private partnerships and • Public Health campaigns. Global in scope, the journal seeks to advance a synergistic relationship between research and practical information. With a focus on promoting the health literacy of the individual, caregiver, provider, community, and those in the health policy, the journal presents research, progress in areas of technology and public health, ethics, politics and policy, and the application of health communication principles. The journal is selective with the highest quality social scientific research including qualitative and quantitative studies.