Predicting Patients' Use of Provider-Delivered E-Health: The Role of Facilitating Conditions

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Author(s): E. Vance Wilson (Arizona State University, USA)and Nancy K. Lankton (Michigan State University, USA)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 13
Source title: Patient-Centered E-Health
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): E. Vance Wilson (Arizona State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-016-5.ch016

Keywords: Health Information Systems / Medical Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

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This chapter presents a new rational-objective (R-O) model of e-health use that accounts for effects of facilitating conditions as well as patients’ behavioral intention. An online questionnaire measured patients’ behavioral intention to use a new e-health application as well as proxy measures of facilitating conditions that assess prior use of and structural need for health services. A second questionnaire administered three months later collected patients’ self-reported use of e-health during the intervening period. The new model increased predictions of patients’ e-health use (measured in R2) by more than 300% over predictions based upon behavioral intention alone, and all measured factors contributed significantly to prediction of use during the three-month assessment period.

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