Exploring The Mechanism Of Effectively Using Mobile Healthcare Applications

Healthcare-relative issues have always been a hot topic of almost all countries in the world.With the advances of information technology,mobile healthcare is becoming a new way of improving peoples' health level.As the representative of mobile healthcare,mobile healthcare applications have been developed quickly.In recent years,despite the explosive growth in the number of mobile healthcare applications,there are only a few applications that can truly solve users' healthcare-relative problems.The most salient problem is that users may not use these mobile healthcare applications effectively,and only a few studies have explored the mechanism of using mobile healthcare applications effectively.This study has carried on a thorough research on the problem from the perspectives of long-term use and effective use in individual level.Based on expectation-confirmation model,task-technology fit theory and cognition of e-health literacy,this study builds the theoretical model,and proposes 16 hypotheses.By analyzing the data collected by questionnaires,this study tests the individual longterm use and effective use behavior models.Results show that six of eight hypotheses related to long-term use behavior are significantly supported,and six of eight hypotheses are also significantly supported in effectively use.In addition,cognition of e-health literacy has shown an important effect both in long-term use and effective use.In order to further explore researches about e-health literacy and its development,we conduct a citation analysis of this variable by a method of knowledge map.Finally,this study fully discusses the research results,and gives implications in theory,practice and policy.The shortcomings and future research directions are also discussed in the end.