Bao Yukun, Hoque Rakibul, Wang Shiyu
Center for Modern Information Management, School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, PR China.
Department of Management Information Systems, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Int J Med Inform. 2017 Jun;102:12-20. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2017.01.003. Epub 2017 Jan 22.
The increasing number of older people and the dissemination of health information via the Internet have emerged and both are challenging to Chinese society. Available online health information highlights the importance of decision making processes, specially in relation to the elderly who almost have no online presence and depend on their adult children's help. The researchers mostly focus on parents' health information search for their children, however, they overlook the adult children's intention to use online health information for their aged parents.
This study fills this gap by extending the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to identify the determinants of adult children's intention to use online health information for their aged parents.
Relying on survey method, the data were collected from teachers and students at different participating Universities in Wuhan, China. The Partial Least Squares (PLS), a structural equation modeling technique, was employed to test the research model.
This study found that attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control and risk (p<0.05) were the predictors of intention to use online health information, whereas, trust (p>0.05) was not listed among the predictors.
This study is a significant addition to the literature, in that it confirms the utility of the TPB with additional variables in predicting adults' children intention to use online health information for their aged parents.
老年人数量的增加以及健康信息通过互联网的传播已出现，这两者都对中国社会构成挑战。现有的在线健康信息凸显了决策过程的重要性，特别是对于几乎没有在线活动且依赖成年子女帮助的老年人而言。然而，研究人员大多关注父母为子女搜索健康信息，却忽视了成年子女为年迈父母使用在线健康信息的意图。
本研究通过扩展计划行为理论（TPB）来填补这一空白，以确定成年子女为年迈父母使用在线健康信息意图的决定因素。
依靠调查方法，从中国武汉不同参与大学的教师和学生中收集数据。采用偏最小二乘法（PLS）这一结构方程建模技术来检验研究模型。
本研究发现，态度、主观规范、感知行为控制和风险（p<0.05）是使用在线健康信息意图的预测因素，而信任（p>0.05）未被列为预测因素。
本研究对文献做出了重要补充，因为它证实了包含额外变量的TPB在预测成年子女为年迈父母使用在线健康信息意图方面的效用。
