跳至主要内容

Case Report: Retirees’ Acceptance and Perceived Contribution of Smartphone in Chronic Disease Management

Read full paper at:
http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=48973#.VJdymcCAM4

Author(s) 
Objectives: As smartphones become more popular, so do their applications. However, expectations of the elderly regarding the contribution of smartphone in controlling chronic diseases remain unclear. This research aims to understand senior retirees’ smartphone acceptance, perceived contribution of smartphone application in facilitating chronic disease control and their association. Findings from the study provide insights for the development of mobile applications in chronic disease management. Methods: convenience sampling was conducted to recruit 110 senior retirees who worked as volunteers in a regional hospital in Taipei. Data was collected through a structured questionnaire. Descriptive, chi-square and logistic regression statistics were applied to analyze data. Results: A total of 108 completed questionnaires were collected with a return rate of 98.2%. Mean age was 65.34 ± 9.59 years old. Of all respondents, 40.7% reported acceptance of internet-enabled smartphones and 54.6% expected that smartphones would facilitate chronic disease management in the future. However, a statistically significant 37.3% of those expecting smartphone to play a role in disease management did not accept smartphones yet. After controlling for age and education, logistic regression analysis showed that older adults with higher smartphone acceptance were more likely to expect use of smartphone in case management (OR = 7.439, p < 0.001). Conclusions: The research presented a scope for smartphone application to control chronic disease in the future. Despite a relatively lower level of smartphone acceptance, the elderly still expected a positive role for mobile appliances to play in chronic disease management.
Cite this paper
Chen, M. (2014) Case Report: Retirees’ Acceptance and Perceived Contribution of Smartphone in Chronic Disease Management. Journal of Biosciences and Medicines, 2, 1-4. doi: 10.4236/jbm.2014.26001. 
 

[1] Hardill, I. and Olphert, C.W. (2012) Staying Connected: Exploring Mobile Phone Use amongst Older Adults in the UK. Geoforum, 43, 1306-1312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.03.016
[2] Mallenius, S., Rossi, M. and Tuunainen, V.K. (2007) Factors Affecting the Adoption and Use of Mobile Devices and Services by Elderly People—Results from a Pilot Study. In: Proceedings of 6th Annual Global Mobility Roundtable, Los Angeles.
[3] Kubik, S. (2009) Motivations for Cell Phone Use by Older Americans. Gerontechnology, 8, 150-164. http://dx.doi.org/10.4017/gt.2009.08.03.007.00
[4] Panou, M., Touliou, K., Bekiaris, E. and Tsaprounis, T. (2013) Mobile Phone Application to Support the Elderly. International Journal of Cyber Society and Education, 6, 51-56. http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/ijcse.1047
[5] Varshney, U. (2003) Pervasive Healthcare. Computer, 36, 138-140. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MC.2003.1250897
[6] PerCare 2008 (2007) First International Workshop on Pervasive Digital Healthcare.
[7] Narula, U. (1988) The Cultural Challenge of Communication Technology. American Behavioral Scientist, 32, 194-207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764288032002010
[8] Sprague, J. and Ruud, G.L. (1988) Boat-Rocking in the High-Technology Culture. American Behavioral Scientist, 32, 169-193. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764288032002009
[9] S.S., C. (1999) Why Are Mobile Phones Popular in Taiwan? Commonwealth Magazine, 68-74.
[10] S.Y., L. (2010) An Investigation on the Elderly’s Mobile Phone Use and Using Behavior in Northern Taiwan. Department of Industrial Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu City, 51.
[11] Demiris, G., Thompson, H., Boquet, J., Le, T., Chaudhuri, S. and Chung, J. (2013) Older Adults’ Acceptance of a Community-Based Telehealth Wellness System. Inform Health Soc Care, 38, 27-36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/17538157.2011.647938
[12] Chang, S.-W. and Lee, K.-K. (2002) Studies of Design Considerations for Human Needs in High Tech Products Using Mobile Handsets for Senior Citizens as an Example. Zao Xing Yi Shu Xue Kan, 357-368.  eww141222lx
标签：

评论

发表评论

此博客中的热门博文

Does Immigration Promote the Investment of the Monopolistic Firm?

In the present paper, we examine the effect of increasing uncertainty of immigrants’ growth on the optimal timing of investment of a firm that has a monopolistic power over the labor market. It is revealed that when the uncertainty of immigrants’ growth is more than a threshold level, increasing uncertainty of immigrants’ growth accelerates the optimal timing of firms’ investment and enhances the economic growth, even if the uncertainty of immigrants’ growth is formulated by the geometric Brownian motion, which is in sharp contrast to the standard result that an increase in the uncertainty postpones the optimal timing. With an increase in the immigrants over the past ten years, workforces in the host countries have been growing significantly to the extent that the immigrants represent 70% of the increase in the workforce in Europe, and 47% in the United States as OECD indicates. In the present paper, we attempted to investigate the effect of increased uncertainty caused by the growi...
发表评论
阅读全文

Education Policy Implementation: A Mechanism for Enhancing Primary Education Development in Zanzibar

Education is one of the fundamental rights of individuals; therefore, the government of a country needs to develop and strengthen educational policy and quality as well as to ensure that everyone has equal access to basic education. The improvement of access and quality of education in the world is becoming as an essential factor in development, whereas the basic education (primary school), is acknowledged as a foundation of the higher educational development for every country. To fulfill this goal, governments introduce several policies and procedures; however, it requires some reforms and participation from the politician, policymakers, and other stakeholders to re-examine educational policy so that it can lead to multiplication and betterment of the reforms. Educational reforms actually focus on accountability. A positive educational development and reform is very challenging and needs more effort and strategy on how to use and utilize the resources effectively as such it can achie...
发表评论
阅读全文