Investigation and influencing factors of willingness to use mobile healthcare in patients with gout
10.3760/cma.j.cn115682-20200907-05250
- VernacularTitle:痛风患者移动医疗使用意愿调查及影响因素分析
- Author:
Ju YAN
1
;
Ting LIU
;
Xiuxin MIAO
;
Yanran ZHANG
Author Information
1. 青岛大学护理学院 266021
- Keywords:
Gout;
Mobile healthcare;
Willingness to use;
Influencing factor
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2021;27(8):1006-1011
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To explore the willingness to use mobile healthcare in patients with gout and explore its influencing factors, and provide theoretical guidance for optimizing the gout mobile healthcare platform and improving patients' willingness to use it.Methods:This study was a cross-sectional study. Totally 234 patients with gout who attended the outpatient service in Shandong Provincial Gout Clinic Medical Center from November 2019 to January 2020 were selected by convenient sampling, and investigated with a self-designed general information questionnaire and questionnaire of gout patients' willingness to use mobile healthcare and its influencing factors. Univariate analysis and multiple linear regression analysis were used to analyze the influencing factors of gout patients' willingness to use mobile healthcare.Results:A total of 53.85% (126/234) of patients with gout mainly used gout WeChat official account as a form of mobile healthcare, and the commonly used functions were diet guidance (64.96%, 152/234) , disease knowledge (60.26%, 141/234) , exercise guidance (54.27%, 127/234) ; 47.01% (110/234) of patients were not satisfied with mobile healthcare. The gout patients' willingness score to use mobile healthcare was (10.91±3.28) . Univariate analysis showed that there were statistically significant differences in the willingness scores of patients with different personal monthly income, education level, and whether have comorbid diseases ( F/t=12.511, 6.343, -2.229; P< 0.05) . Regression analysis showed that the influencing factors of gout patients' willingness to use mobile healthcare included perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, information quality and system quality (adjust R2=0.446, P<0.01) . Conclusions:The willingness of gout patients to use mobile healthcare services is at a moderately high level, and there are differences between different individuals. The willingness to use mobile healthcare is affected by patients' health beliefs and the quality of mobile healthcare information systems.
