Abstract
The market for wearable health monitoring technology is promising globally and in Saudi Arabia particularly. The country has a very high prevalence of chronic diseases that can be managed using wearable health monitoring technology. However, wearable devices are not fully advantageous if people do not accept them. Due to the parsimony of studies on the acceptance of wearable health monitoring technology, understanding the key drivers of using wearable health monitoring technology remains uncertain. This cross-sectional study extends the extended unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT2) to explain the variance in the adoption intention of wearable health monitoring technology. A total of 256 responses were analyzed using the partial least squares structural equation modeling technique, in addition to the importance-performance map analysis. The results indicate that performance expectancy (PE), social influence (SI), facilitating conditions (FC), hedonic motivation (HM) and habit (HA) significantly impact users’ behavioral intention (BI) to adopt wearable health monitoring technology. The results also demonstrate that effort expectancy (EE), price value (PV), government health policy (GHP) and trust (TR) are not important. Based on the findings, this research presents a set of recommendations for decisions makers, managers and system developers in the healthcare sector to enhance the use and quality of wearable technology.
Highlights
With the recent developments in information and communication technology, new healthcare innovations have emerged to fulfill the needs of patients, such as wearable devices
Despite the relative advantages of wearable technology, little research has been conducted to understand the acceptance of wearable health monitoring technology
A small amount of variance in user behavioral intention (BI) to use wearable health monitoring technology has been explained by external variables
Summary
With the recent developments in information and communication technology, new healthcare innovations have emerged to fulfill the needs of patients, such as wearable devices. Wearable health monitoring technology, including smartwatches, fitness bands, eyewear and earwear, is being increasingly used for monitoring health conditions by tracking vital signs, medicine actions and even physiological states. These devices are equipped with sensors, actuators, global positioning systems and accelerometers for continuous health monitoring and location tracking and feedback on a real-time basis [1]. The emergence of wearable health monitoring technology has provided users with anywhere-anytime access to their personal information, which is an important feature for the younger generation [3]. The advantages of wearable health monitoring technology are not limited to the expenditure reduction of healthcare; wearable health monitoring technology can contribute directly to clinical decision-making [4]
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