Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Nursing
Date Submitted: Oct 11, 2023
Open Peer Review Period: Oct 11, 2023 - Oct 25, 2023
Date Accepted: Mar 13, 2024
(closed for review but you can still tweet)
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Privacy Barriers in Health Monitoring: A Scoping Review
ABSTRACT
Background:
Health monitoring technologies help patients and the elderly live better and stay longer at their private homes. However, there are lots of factoring influencing their adoption of these technologies. Privacy is one of them.
Objective:
The aim of this study is to provide an overview of the privacy barriers in health monitoring from current research, provide a social psychological explanation, and put forward suggestions for mitigating these barriers in future research.
Methods:
A scoping review was conducted, and online literature databases were searched for published studies to explore the available research on privacy barriers in a health monitoring environment.
Results:
Sixty-six articles that met the inclusion criteria were selected and analyzed. Contradictory findings and results were found in some of the articles. We analyzed the contradictory findings and gave possible explanations for current barriers, such as demographic differences, information asymmetry, researchers’ conceptual confusion, inducible experiment design and its psychological impacts on participants, researchers’ confirmation bias, and lack of distinguishing different user roles. We found that few exploratory studies were conducted to collect legal norms regarding privacy in a health monitoring environment so far. Four research questions related to privacy barriers were raised and an attempt was made to provide the first answers.
Conclusions:
This review highlights the problems of some research and lists the factors that should be considered when collecting and analyzing people’s privacy attitudes.
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