Factors influencing the usage of medical and health care APP among female college students
10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2019.11.010
- VernacularTitle:女大学生医疗健康类APP利用行为及影响因素分析
- Author:
ZHAO Zixuan，YIN Wenqiang， MA Guangbin，ZHU Lili，ZHOU Longde，CHEN Xingmin，CHENG Cheng，LI Lingyu，HAN Yan，WANG Anqi
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Author Information
1. School of Public Health and Management，Weifang Medical University，Weifang(261053) ，Shandong Province，China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Students;
Health education;
Health knowledge,attitudes,practice
- From:
Chinese Journal of School Health
2019;40(11):1638-1640
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To investigate the usage of medical and health care APP among female college students, and to understand possible influencing factors, so as to provide reference for medical health care behaviors and personal health among college students.
Methods:A stratified random sampling method was used to select 891 female college students from 3 colleges in Weifang. A questionnaire survey on their concentration on their own health, the knowledge, cognition and behavior of medical and health care APP, and Logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the influencing factors.
Results:There were 55.4% female college students who had used medical and health care APP, and most of them (290) had used fitness and weight loss APP. There was statistical significance of the different usages of students of different degrees, majors and grades(χ2=26.55, 7.72, 13.96, P<0.05). Logistic regression analysis showed that educational background, annual medical costs, awareness of medical and health care APP and attitude towards APP prospect were the factors influencing the utilization of medical and health care APP (OR=0.44，0.69，1.36，1.23，P<0.05).
Conclusion:The usage rate of medical and health care APP is general, and sustained utilization rate is low, the APP should enrich menstrual period consumption and figure report, add video recommendation, interactive dating, and other functions, improve female students medical and health care APP cognition, female college students to change health care APP attitude.
