Physicians' appraisal of mobile health monitoring

Abstract

This study addresses what factors influence and moderate Japanese physicians' mobile health monitoring (MHM) adoption for diabetic patients. In light of the multilevel sequential check theory, the study tests whether novelty seeking, self-efficacy, and compatibility moderate the effects of overall quality, net benefits, and perceived value of MHM on physicians' usage intention. Self-efficacy serves as an evaluation of resources for coping with an event, while compatibility involves the judgment of an event's congruence with a motive or goal. The study results support four out of nine moderation hypotheses. Our findings clearly indicate that the impact of overall quality and net benefits on physicians' intention to use MHM would be significantly strengthened by self-efficacy and compatibility, but not by novelty seeking.

Keywords:

• compatibility
• mobile health monitoring
• partial least squares
• perceived ubiquity
• personal innovativeness
• psychological distance
• self-efficacy

Acknowledgements

This research was funded by a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (National Plan for Research, Development and Innovation ECO2011-30105). The authors thank three anonymous reviewers and the special issue editors, Juan-Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro and Gabriel Cepeda-Carrion, for their valuable and constructive comments on previous versions of this article.