The Demographic Representativeness and Health Outcomes of Digital Health Station Users: Longitudinal Study
| Autor: | Denny Meyer, Won Sun Chen, Leah Flitcroft |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Male Longitudinal study 020205 medical informatics Population health status Health Informatics 02 engineering and technology Demographic profile Population health Overweight lcsh:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine health behavior 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering medicine Humans Longitudinal Studies 030212 general & internal medicine education health technology Socioeconomic status Aged Original Paper education.field_of_study business.industry lcsh:Public aspects of medicine lcsh:RA1-1270 Odds ratio Middle Aged Digital health Telemedicine lcsh:R858-859.7 eHealth Female medicine.symptom business population health Demography |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Medical Internet Research, Vol 22, Iss 6, p e14977 (2020) Journal of Medical Internet Research |
| ISSN: | 1438-8871 |
| Popis: | Background Digital health stations offer an affordable and accessible platform for people to monitor their health; however, there is limited information regarding the demographic profile of users and the health benefits of this technology. Objective This study aimed to assess the demographic representativeness of health station users, identify the factors associated with repeat utilization of stations, and determine if the health status of repeat users changed between baseline and final health check. Methods Data from 180,442 health station users in Australia, including 8441 repeat users, were compared with 2014-2015 Australian National Health Survey (NHS) participants on key demographic and health characteristics. Binary logistic regression analyses were used to compare demographic and health characteristics of repeat and one-time users. Baseline and final health checks of repeat users were compared using McNemar tests and Wilcoxon signed rank tests. The relationship between the number of checks and final health scores was investigated using generalized linear models. Results The demographic profile of SiSU health station users differs from that of the general population. A larger proportion of SiSU users were female (100,814/180,442, 55.87% vs 7807/15,393, 50.72%), younger (86,387/180,442, 47.88% vs 5309/15,393, 34.49% aged less than 35 years), and socioeconomically advantaged (64,388/180,442, 35.68% vs 3117/15,393, 20.25%). Compared with NHS participants, a smaller proportion of SiSU health station users were overweight or obese, were smokers, had high blood pressure (BP), or had diabetes. When data were weighted for demographic differences, only rates of high BP were found to be lower for SiSU users compared with the NHS participants (odds ratio [OR] 1.26; P Conclusions These findings provide valuable insight into the benefits of health stations for self-monitoring and partially support previous research regarding the effect of demographics and health status on self-management of health. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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