Accepted for/Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Date Submitted: Jun 4, 2021
Date Accepted: Feb 9, 2022
The Impact of the Moderating Effect of National Culture on Adoption Intention regarding Wearable Healthcare Devices: A Meta-Analysis
ABSTRACT
Background:
Wearable healthcare devices can effectively decrease the number of patient visits and medical expenses, but they have not yet been commercialized on a large scale. Moreover, people in dif-ferent countries have different utilization rates of wearable healthcare devices.
Objective:
This research aims to explore how national culture moderates the relationship between the var-iables in Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and adoption intention.
Methods:
The meta-analysis method was used to conduct a moderating effect test of national culture with a total of 13 articles, including 15 data sets.
Results:
This article concluded that the relationships of performance expectations, effort expecta-tions, social influence and facilitating conditions with adoption intention are all negatively moderated by individualism, uncertainty avoidance, and indulgence and positively moderated by long-term orientation. Moreover, the relationships of performance expectations and facili-tating conditions with adoption intention are positively moderated by power distance, and the relationship between effort expectations and adoption intention is negatively moderated by masculinity.
Conclusions:
This paper is one of the first studies to use a meta-analysis to analyse the impact of national culture on technology adoption in the medical field. The results of this study could have implications for global wearable healthcare device providers to develop and market successfully across borders, for people to effectively en-hance health conditions, and for national health agencies to decrease medical expenses.
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