Understanding health information literacy of mHealth app users from digital wellbeing perspective : evidence from regression analysis and fsQCA

While past research suggests mHealth apps help cultivate users’ health information literacy (HIL), factors contributing to their HIL development have not been systematically studied. Applying digital wellbeing framework, an empirical investigation using a large-scale survey dataset was conducted. Fr...

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Main Authors: Fu, Shaoxiong, Chen, Xiaoyu, Zheng, Han, Ou, Mengxue
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1524442023-03-05T15:58:56Z Understanding health information literacy of mHealth app users from digital wellbeing perspective : evidence from regression analysis and fsQCA Fu, Shaoxiong Chen, Xiaoyu Zheng, Han Ou, Mengxue Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Shanghai University Library and information science::General Social sciences::Communication Digital Wellbeing Health Information Literacy mHealth App Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis Regression Analysis While past research suggests mHealth apps help cultivate users’ health information literacy (HIL), factors contributing to their HIL development have not been systematically studied. Applying digital wellbeing framework, an empirical investigation using a large-scale survey dataset was conducted. From regression analysis and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), two findings were yielded. First, six influential factors, including person-specific factors (i.e., gender, annual family income, Internet experience), device-specific factors (i.e., screen sizes of mobile phones), and context-specific factors (i.e., use frequency and perceived quality of mHealth apps), were identified. Second, gender, annual family income, internet experience, screen size of mobile phones, use frequency and perceived quality of mHealth apps had synergistic effects on HIL. By introducing fsQCA to library and information science community, the study not only extends literature by teasing out the combinations of different categories of factors contributing to HIL but informs health professionals and mHealth app developers. Accepted version The study is funded by The Fundamental Research Funds of Humanities and Social Science Research for the Central Universities of China (Project No. SKYC2021023) and 2021 Shuang Chuang Doctoral Program in Jiangsu Province. 2021-08-26T04:28:53Z 2021-08-26T04:28:53Z 2021 Journal Article Fu, S., Chen, X., Zheng, H. & Ou, M. (2021). Understanding health information literacy of mHealth app users from digital wellbeing perspective : evidence from regression analysis and fsQCA. Library and Information Science Research, 43(3), 101108-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2021.101108 0740-8188 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152444 10.1016/j.lisr.2021.101108 2-s2.0-85111664500 3 43 101108 en Library and Information Science Research © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. This paper was published in Library and Information Science Research and is made available with permission of Elsevier Inc. application/pdf
institution Nanyang Technological University
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continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
content_provider NTU Library
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language English
topic Library and information science::General
Social sciences::Communication
Digital Wellbeing
Health Information Literacy
mHealth App
Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Regression Analysis
spellingShingle Library and information science::General
Social sciences::Communication
Digital Wellbeing
Health Information Literacy
mHealth App
Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Regression Analysis
Fu, Shaoxiong
Chen, Xiaoyu
Zheng, Han
Ou, Mengxue
Understanding health information literacy of mHealth app users from digital wellbeing perspective : evidence from regression analysis and fsQCA
description While past research suggests mHealth apps help cultivate users’ health information literacy (HIL), factors contributing to their HIL development have not been systematically studied. Applying digital wellbeing framework, an empirical investigation using a large-scale survey dataset was conducted. From regression analysis and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), two findings were yielded. First, six influential factors, including person-specific factors (i.e., gender, annual family income, Internet experience), device-specific factors (i.e., screen sizes of mobile phones), and context-specific factors (i.e., use frequency and perceived quality of mHealth apps), were identified. Second, gender, annual family income, internet experience, screen size of mobile phones, use frequency and perceived quality of mHealth apps had synergistic effects on HIL. By introducing fsQCA to library and information science community, the study not only extends literature by teasing out the combinations of different categories of factors contributing to HIL but informs health professionals and mHealth app developers.
author2 Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
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Fu, Shaoxiong
Chen, Xiaoyu
Zheng, Han
Ou, Mengxue
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author Fu, Shaoxiong
Chen, Xiaoyu
Zheng, Han
Ou, Mengxue
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title Understanding health information literacy of mHealth app users from digital wellbeing perspective : evidence from regression analysis and fsQCA
title_short Understanding health information literacy of mHealth app users from digital wellbeing perspective : evidence from regression analysis and fsQCA
title_full Understanding health information literacy of mHealth app users from digital wellbeing perspective : evidence from regression analysis and fsQCA
title_fullStr Understanding health information literacy of mHealth app users from digital wellbeing perspective : evidence from regression analysis and fsQCA
title_full_unstemmed Understanding health information literacy of mHealth app users from digital wellbeing perspective : evidence from regression analysis and fsQCA
title_sort understanding health information literacy of mhealth app users from digital wellbeing perspective : evidence from regression analysis and fsqca
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