How do Patients with Chronic Diseases Make Usage Decisions Regarding Mobile Health Monitoring Services?

摘要：

　　The increasing population of patients with chronic diseases generates great challenge of chronic disease management.The occurrence of mobile health monitoring service is beneficial to chronic disease prevention and health promotion.The objective of this study is to investigate how the patients with chronic diseases make usage decisions on mobile health monitoring service.A survey comprising 261 subjects were conducted to validate the research model and proposed hypotheses.The results revealed that health severity positively influences mobile health monitoring service use intention, while negative health emotions do not.Health uncertainty avoidance strengthens the effect of health severity but weakens the effect of negative health emotions on mobile health monitoring service use intention.Limitations and implications for research and practice are discussed.

关键词： Mobile health monitoring service chronic diseases health severity negative health emotions health uncertainty avoidance

作者: Fanbo Meng Xitong Guo Kee-hung Lai Xinli Zhao

作者单位: School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China;Faculty of Business, The Hong Ko School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China Faculty of Business, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The Seventeenth Wuhan International Conference on E-Business(第17届武汉电子商务国际会议)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 321-329

在线出版日期: 2018-05-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）