Atalay Havva Nur, Yücel Şebnem
Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Health Management, Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University, Balıkesir, Turkey.
Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Health Management, Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey.
Arch Public Health. 2024 Oct 11;82(1):180. doi: 10.1186/s13690-024-01416-z.
Personal health data is crucial for effective medical care, personalized treatment, and health monitoring. It enables accurate diagnosis, efficient treatment plans, and informed healthcare decisions. Personal health data should be protected to ensure patient privacy, prevent misuse or unauthorized access, and maintain trust in healthcare systems, thereby safeguarding individuals' sensitive information from potential harm or exploitation. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate whether perceived risk and perceived benefits have mediating roles in the relationships among individuals' personal health information disclosure behaviour, perceived control, and privacy concerns.
The population of the study consisted of individuals living in the provinces of Izmir, Konya and Adana. The sample of the study consisted of individuals who were reached through a convenience sampling method. The scales for privacy concerns, perceived control, perceived risk, perceived benefits and information disclosure behaviour were used in the study. Cronbach's alpha and the AVE were calculated, and a confirmatory factor analysis was performed. A path analysis was performed using the structural equation model to test the hypotheses.
The analysis revealed a significant negative relationship between individuals' personal health data disclosure behaviour and their privacy concerns. However, perceived risk and perceived benefit did not mediate this relationship. Additionally, a significant positive relationship was found between individuals' behaviour of disclosing their perceived control and personal health data, with perceived risk and benefits playing a mediating role in this relationship.
The study concluded that as individuals' concerns about sharing personal health data increase, they are less likely to share these data. It was also found that perceived risk and perceived benefit mediate this relationship. Additionally, higher perceived risk intensifies privacy concerns, further discouraging data sharing, while perceived benefits can mitigate these concerns, promoting greater willingness to disclose health information.
个人健康数据对于有效的医疗护理、个性化治疗和健康监测至关重要。它有助于准确诊断、制定高效的治疗方案以及做出明智的医疗决策。个人健康数据应受到保护，以确保患者隐私，防止滥用或未经授权的访问，并维护对医疗系统的信任，从而保护个人敏感信息免受潜在的伤害或利用。因此，本研究旨在调查感知风险和感知收益在个人健康信息披露行为、感知控制和隐私担忧之间的关系中是否起中介作用。
该研究的人群包括居住在伊兹密尔、科尼亚和阿达纳省的个人。该研究的样本由通过便利抽样方法获得的个人组成。研究中使用了隐私担忧、感知控制、感知风险、感知收益和信息披露行为的量表。计算了克朗巴哈系数和AVE，并进行了验证性因素分析。使用结构方程模型进行路径分析以检验假设。
分析显示个人的个人健康数据披露行为与他们的隐私担忧之间存在显著的负相关关系。然而，感知风险和感知收益并未介导这种关系。此外，发现个人披露其感知控制和个人健康数据的行为之间存在显著的正相关关系，感知风险和收益在这种关系中起中介作用。
该研究得出结论，随着个人对分享个人健康数据的担忧增加，他们分享这些数据的可能性就越小。还发现感知风险和感知收益介导了这种关系。此外，较高的感知风险加剧了隐私担忧，进一步阻碍了数据共享，而感知收益可以减轻这些担忧，促进更愿意披露健康信息。
