scholarly journals Users’ willingness to adopt health information in a social question-and-answer community during COVID-19 epidemic: A cross-sectional study in China (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
PengFei Li ◽  
Lin Xu ◽  
Tingting Tang ◽  
Xiaoqian Wu ◽  
Cheng Huang
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Structural Equation Model ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Social Question ◽  
Performance Expectation ◽  
Willingness To Adopt ◽  
Facilitating Conditions

BACKGROUND COVID-19 has spread around the world, increasing the public’s need for health information in the process. Meanwhile, in the context of lockdowns and other measures to prevent virus spread, the Internet has surged as an online resource for health information. Under these conditions, social question-and-answer communities (SQACs) are playing an increasingly important role in improving public health literacy. There is great theoretical and practical significance in exploring the influencing factors of SQAC users’ willingness to adopt health information. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to establish a UTAUT extended model which could analyze influence factors of SQAC users’ willingness to adopt health information during COVID-19 epidemic. Particularly, we tried to test the moderating effect of different demographic characteristics on the variables’ influences. METHODS The study was conducted with the administration of an online questionnaire survey and the analysis of the responses from a final total of 598 valid questionnaires after invalid data were cleaned. Using structural equation modeling, the influencing factors of SQAC users’ willingness to adopt health information were analyzed. The moderating effects of variables were verified by hierarchical regression. RESULTS Performance expectation (βPE = .282, P < .001), social influence (βSI = .238, P = .02) and facilitating conditions (βFC = .279, P = .002) positively affected users’ willingness to adopt health information, whereas effort expectancy (P = .79) and perceived risk (P = .41) had no significant effects. Gender had a significant moderating effect in the structural equation model. CONCLUSIONS SQAC users’ willingness to adopt health information was evidently affected by multiple factors such as performance expectation, social influence and facilitating conditions. The structural equation model proposed in this study has a good fitting situation and explanatory power of users’ willingness to adopt health information. Suggestions are provided for the SQAC operators and health management agencies based on research results.

scholarly journals Factors influencing users' willingness to share health information in the social question-and-answer community represented by Zhihu: An online questionnaire survey (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
PengFei Li ◽  
Lin Xu ◽  
TingT Tang ◽  
Xiaoqian Wu ◽  
Cheng Huang
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Social Question ◽  
The Social ◽  
Question And Answer

BACKGROUND Social Q&A communities are playing an increasingly important role in the dissemination of health information. The identification of influencing factors of user willingness to share health information (WSHI) is very important to improve public health literacy. OBJECTIVE in order to provide a reference for the construction of high-quality health information sharing community, this paper studied the influencing factors of social question-and-answer community users sharing health information. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted through snowball sampling among 921 users of Zhihu in China. Structural equation analysis was used to verify the interaction and influence strength between variables in the model. Hierarchical regression was also used to test the mediating effect in the model. RESULTS Altruism (AL, β=0.264, P＜0.001), Intrinsic Reward (IR, β=0.260, P＜0.05), Self-Efficacy (SE, β=0.468, P＜0.001) and Community Influence (CI, β=0.277, P＜0.01) had a positive effect while Extrinsic Reward (ER, β=0.351, P＜0.001) had a negative effect on WSHI. SE also had a mediating effect (βmediation=0.147, 29.15%, 0.147/0.505) between CI and WSHI. CONCLUSIONS Findings suggest that WSHI is simultaneously influenced by many factors such as AL, SE, CI and IR. Improving the social atmosphere of the platform is an effective method to encourage users to share health information.

scholarly journals The role of individual values in the behavior of using discount coupons

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 568-591
Author(s):  
Alice Chaves ◽  
Leonardo Flach ◽  
Jonatas Dutra Sallaberry
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Individual Values ◽  
Brazilian Literature ◽  
Performance Expectation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Facilitating Conditions ◽  
And Behavior

Purpose – The research analyzed the determinants (Performance Expectation, Expectation of Effort, Social Influence, Facilitating Conditions, Hedonic Motivation, Value and Habit) of the intention and the behavior of using online discount coupons, through UTAUT2 in the Brazilian context. Design/methodology/approach – The survey was adopted with an instrument adapted from Yang (2010) and Christino et al. (2019) validated by experts. Made available online, the instrument collected 309 responses for analysis using the structural equation modeling technique. Findings – The results validated the positive relationships for Facilitating Conditions, Hedonic Motivation, Perceived Value, Habit and Performance Expectation - the highest’s coefficients. The influence of Expectation on Effort and Social Influence has not been validated. Research limitations/implications – The results cannot be generalized to all Brazilian individuals, in addition to considering recognized determinants of international literature. For this reason, suggestions are made for continuing and deepening the research. Practical implications – The results contribute by indicating the main perceptions that lead to the intention and use of discount coupons, which are the performance expectation and the habit. Thus, managers can develop their sales strategies considering such factors while society can establish strategies to more sustainable purchases. Originality/value – The research discusses the determinants of UTAUT2 in the Brazilian context to explain the intention and behavior of using online discount coupons, which are grouped together are unprecedented in Brazilian literature.

scholarly journals Evaluation on the Effect of Service-Learning in E-Business Professional Curriculum

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (08) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Jie Ji ◽  
Jianqiang Gu
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Structural Equation Model ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Direct Effect ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Students Satisfaction ◽  
Relevant Factors ◽  
Business Professional

Based on structural equation model, this paper evaluated the effect of Service-Learning in E-business professional curriculum, and built a structural equation model of Service-Learning and its influencing factors from three aspects: project resource, teaching organization and student engagement，in order to understand the students satisfaction to the effect of Service-Learning and the relevant factors. The results show that, the effect of Service-Learning is influenced by the three aspects mentioned above. Among which, teaching organization and student engagement have a direct effect on the effect of Service-Learning, however, the influence of the project resource mainly displays the indirect influence.

scholarly journals Influencing factors of physicians’ prescription behavior in selecting essential medicines: a cross-sectional survey in Chinese county hospitals

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Zhou ◽  
Xueting Zhang ◽  
Linsheng Yang ◽  
Xu Hu ◽  
Aizong Shen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Structural Equation Model ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Essential Medicine ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Essential Medicines ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Factors Affecting

Abstract Background To explore the key factors affecting prescription practices of essential medicines in Chinese county hospital. National essential medicine policy (NEMP) plays important roles in health care system, especially in developing countries. As a fundamental component in the Chinese health system reform, NEMP was implemented in primary health care institutions during the first stage of reform. As it is rolled out, priority usage and zero-mark-up policy of essential medicines are to be applied in every government-run healthcare institution. However, the intention and influence factors of physicians on priority selecting essential medicine remains unclear. Methods Based on the theory of planned behavior, a cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted to analyze physicians’ intention, attitude, subjective norms (SNs) and perceived behavioral control (PBC) on prescrictions and their actual behavior on selection of essential medicines. Results Two hundred eighty-two physicians participated in the structural questionnaire interview. The final structural equation model reflected influencing factors affecting physicians’ prescribing behavior (χ2/df = 1.32, GFI = 0.99, IFI = 0.99). Structural equation model analysis showed that attitude, other influencers and institutional environment, and PBC significantly affected behavioral intention. However, the control extent of cognition behavior of physicians prescribing had no significant positive effect on the priority usage of essential medicines. Conclusion Investigation results demonstrate physicians are unaware of NEMP design and implementation plans. To help enhance rational use of essential medicines we suggest educating physicians on the value of NEMP, and integrating the drug shortage report into the essential medicine (EM) bidding system seamless communication with pharmaceutical manufacturers’ credit information system.

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