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Willing or reluctant to share health data? A moderated mediation analysis of wearable device usage and data-sharing intentions among older adults.
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- Interactive interfaces and wearable technologies for enhancing health management among older adults: a systematic review.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Willingness to Share Smartwatch-Generated Health Data Among a Sample of Adults in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Invisible minority stress and addictive behaviors: disparities in psychological distress and e-cigarette use among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults in China.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Perceived cognitive slowing and online health information seeking among older adults: motivational beliefs as pathways and community IT culture as a buffer.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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Abstract
Background: Digital health has the potential to enhance health communication efficiency. However, this potential remains underappreciated among older population due to prevalent technological challenges. The introduction of wearable devices may constitute a positive intervention to alleviate these technological concerns and improve health communication. This study aims to investigate the association between wearable device usage and health tracking data sharing intention among older adults, with digital technology self-efficacy serving as a mediator. Methods: This study used cross-sectional secondary data from the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS 5 Cycle 4), conducted between February and June 2020. The sample included older adults aged 60 or older ( Results: The results indicate that wearable device usage, when mediated by digital technology self-efficacy, has both direct and indirect positive effect on health tracking data sharing intention ( Conclusion: This study provides empirical evidence that wearable devices play an important role in improving digital technology self-efficacy and ultimately contribute to health tracking data sharing among older adults. Understanding these relationships can encourage wearable device adoption and improve health communication and well-being among the older population in the era of digital health.
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