Modelling the mass adoption potential of wearable medical devices

Abstract

Digital technologies empower users to manage their health and reduce the burden on the public health system. The mass adoption of wearable medical devices (WMDs) promotes the ageing population’s confidence besides facilitating users. Thus, the current study aims to empirically evaluate the formation of perceived product value (PPV) with the WMDs’ computability, usefulness, cost, and accuracy, the intention to use WMDs influenced by health consciousness (HCS), health anxiety (HAY), product value, and perceived critical mass (PCM), and later the adoption of WMDs among Chinese adults. The study examined the mediating effect of PPV on the relationship between the intention to use WMDs and perceived compatibility (PCT), perceived cost (PCO), perceived usefulness (PUS), and perceived technology accuracy (PTA). This study adopted a cross-sectional approach and used an online survey to collect quantitative data from 1,160 Chinese adults. Data analysis was performed using the partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). Results showed that PCT, PUS, and PTA significant positive effect on PPV. Meanwhile, HCS, PCM, and PPV has a significant positive effect on intention to use WMDs, and the intention to use WMDs and PCM influenced the adoption of WMDs. Consequently, the analysis confirmed that PPV mediated the relationships between the intention to use WMD and PCT, PUS, and PTA. The WMD cost must be reduced to enhance the value of WMDs. Finally, the study’s implications, limitations, and suggestions for future studies are discussed.

Exploring the mass adoption potential of wearable fitness devices in Malaysia

“… 43 Consequently, multivariate data normality examination is accomplished with the online tool of web power ( https://webpower.psychstat.org/wiki/tools/index). 32 The outcome settles that the present data were nonnormal, as Mardia's multivariate coefficient p -values were below .05. 44 …”

“…Second, HMT was assessed with four items taken from Li et al 25 with the reported Cronbach's Alpha of 0.91. Next, PCM was evaluated using the four items from Yang et al, 32 having Cronbach's alpha for the scale was 0.96. PUF was assessed with four items taken from Kim et al, 5 with Cronbach's alpha of 0.93.…”

“… 4 Apart from that, if fitness devices are more compatible with the user's experience and lifestyle, it will be easier to comprehend how to use them. 14 , 32 Users may deem fitness devices more compatible if they see the advantages of utilizing them for specific activities. Higher compatibility signifies a connection between the fitness devices and users’ behavioral-cognitive skills, reinforcing the longing to benefit from fitness gadgets.…”

“… 10 In healthcare, PUS is an individual's belief that using a fitness device would enhance his or her health condition. 32 Wearable fitness trackers can make the users’ activities more comfortable, simple, and practical, thereby meeting the users’ needs more quickly and consequently playing a substantial part in improving their health. 18 Users tend to adopt fitness devices to continually monitor their body conditions if they believe this innovative device can help them better monitor their health and enhance their health and quality of life.…”

What motivates users to continually use wearable medical devices? Evidence from a developing nation

“…Additionally, prior research on health-care wearable technology and its uses tended to concentrate on particular age groups, using the TAM, UTAUT and UTAUT2 perspectives. Interestingly research, to date, has focused primarily on the characteristics that motivate users to embrace a new wearable device (Park, 2020;Yang et al, 2022;Huarng et al, 2022); and another few that focus on its abandonment (Lazar et al, 2015;Shen et al, 2018;Fietkiewicz and Ilhan, 2021;Attig and Franke, 2022), as opposed to those that encourage continued usage. Precisely speaking, there remains a paucity of research regarding user adoption behaviour and the actual use of such technology (Lee and Lee, 2020).…”