Digital Health Literacy and Sport-Physical Activities: The Moderating Role of Age

Abstract

Background : The present study extends understanding of digital health literacy by exploring issues that clarify how and when sport-physical activities enhance digital health literacy measured by four types of health-related information searched on the Internet i.e., general health information, information on a specific injury or condition, specific information on a medical treatment or procedure and information regarding second opinion after visiting a doctor. Methods: We employ Tobit model on the large European data (N=5,318). Results: We find support for direct relation between sport-physical activities and digital health literacy. In addition, we find that the effect of sport-physical activities on digital health literacy is reversed when interacted with age. Conclusion: This evidence is consistent with the view that sport-physical activities can be considered as an important tool for digital health literacy improvement but only under certain socio-demographic characteristics.

In a Stressful Social Environment, Can Using Sports Apps Relieve the Physical and Mental Stress of the Elderly? From the Perspective of Industry 4.0

“…e ultimate goal of each product or decision is to know the real outcome of the user, especially the person directly involved [27,28]. However, although the development of exercise app software has been discussed by some scholars, researchers have found that the current status of research on exercise apps for the elderly is mainly to understand how to monitor and manage the health of the elderly [29,30,32] or analyze the users' feelings toward the products [35][36][37]. ere are few studies on changes in the physical and mental health of the elderly after using exercise apps.…”

“…According to statistics, in terms of the current status of COVID-19-related research, the areas of research include virus transmission and community infection [4,32], the impact of economic and social development [1,2,16], biology and sports medicine [5,6,9,49,52], epidemic prevention and decision-making [8,11,19,40], public health [10,12,15,41], psychology [17,18,41,48], and the impact on people's physical and mental health during an epidemic [10,12,14,40]. However, few studies have used the perspective of leisure exercise to explore individual physical and mental health maintenance measures [8] and future research development trends [53].…”

“…Scholars believe that Internet technology can help human exercise [29], and literature on Internet technology intervention in elderly health has shown that health technology apps can assist medical professionals in remotely monitoring the health of the elderly [30] and enhancing the self-health management of the elderly patients at home [31]. However, since prevention is better than treatment [30], in recent years, scholars have gradually begun to focus on the physical and mental health of the elderly [32]. Unfortunately, the research on exercise apps and the elderly has so far been limited to exploring the effectiveness of the software in managing the health of the elderly [29,30,31] and the health maintenance and management of the elderly in the community [32].…”

“…However, since prevention is better than treatment [30], in recent years, scholars have gradually begun to focus on the physical and mental health of the elderly [32]. Unfortunately, the research on exercise apps and the elderly has so far been limited to exploring the effectiveness of the software in managing the health of the elderly [29,30,31] and the health maintenance and management of the elderly in the community [32]. ere is a lack of literature on the physical and mental health of the elderly [33] or the physical and mental health of the elderly after using exercise apps [32,33].…”

“…Unfortunately, the research on exercise apps and the elderly has so far been limited to exploring the effectiveness of the software in managing the health of the elderly [29,30,31] and the health maintenance and management of the elderly in the community [32]. ere is a lack of literature on the physical and mental health of the elderly [33] or the physical and mental health of the elderly after using exercise apps [32,33]. erefore, it is suggested that the study of the impact of online exercise apps on the physical and mental health of elderly people can be improved by the introduction of Industry 4.0 technology.…”