Factors Associated with Older Adults' Long-Term Use of Wearable Activity Trackers
Factors Associated with Older Adults' Long-Term Use of Wearable Activity Trackers
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DOI：
10.1089/tmj.2019.0052
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发表时间：
2019-09-25
影响因子：
4.7
通讯作者：
Cotten, Shelia R.
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作者：
Li, Lin;Peng, Wei;Cotten, Shelia R.
背景资料：可穿戴活动跟踪器（WATS）有可能改善老年人的健康;然而，许多WATS的采用者无法长期使用它们。研究方法：对65岁及以上的成年人（N = 214）进行了一项在线调查，以探讨与长期使用WATS相关的因素，包括最初的采用动机，使用模式以及社会人口因素，健康状况和活动水平的差异。结果如下：逻辑回归分析的结果表明，长期使用WAT与使用更广泛的WAT功能，每天佩戴WAT，女性，更频繁地锻炼，受过高等教育，不参加步数比赛以及没有慢性疾病显着相关。结论：了解老年人长期使用WATS的情况非常重要，因为这种技术在最初采用后容易被迅速放弃，这种放弃否定了其支持长期健康行为改变的潜力。这项研究的结果将为创新的WAT设计提供信息，这些设计可以长期使用，并为未来在老年人中使用WATS的干预措施提供有用的策略。
Background: Wearable activity trackers (WATs) have the potential to improve older adults' health; yet, many adopters of WATs are not able to use them on a long-term basis. Methods: A survey was conducted with an online panel of adults 65 and older (N = 214) to explore factors associated with long-term use of WATs, including initial adoption motivations, usage patterns, as well as differences in sociodemographic factors, health status, and activity levels. Results: Results from the logistic regression analysis indicated that being a long-term WAT user was significantly associated with using a wider variety of WAT functions, wearing WAT every day, being female, exercising more frequently, having higher education, not engaging in step count competition, and not having chronic conditions. Conclusions: Understanding long-term use of WATs among older adults is important given that this technology is prone to be abandoned quickly after initial adoption and such abandonment negates its potential in supporting long-term health behavior change. Findings of this study will inform innovative WAT designs that afford long-term use and offer helpful strategies for future interventions using WATs among older adults.