Objective: This is an exploratory study examining the perceived attitudes and readiness of women aged 50 years or older on adopting a mobile phone-based intervention named as Infohealth in Singapore. Method: Infohealth is designed as a health informatics to tailor personalized healthcare advice for the well-being for women – very little is known about the acceptability level of selfcare technology, especially the older among the female population. To explore participants’ perceptions and acceptance, a telephone survey was developed from concepts identified from various user acceptance theories and models. Correlation was used to identify significant dependent variables while partial least square and boot-strapping procedures were used to estimate the significance of the path coefficients. Results: Analysis supports the validity and reliability of the 27-item research model consisting of 8 constructs. 700 women aged 50 years and older responded to the survey. Findings show the extent of ageing women’s existing dependency on others for help, regard for close ones whom they care for, opinion from family and friends, and guarding the health of people who are important for them do not directly affect the intention of using Infohealth, but are rather mediated by perceived usefulness. This study validated some ageing-specific and female-posited variables to suggest as main constructs in future innovation adoption studies about older women. Technological anxiety and perceived physical condition both have no direct relationship with perceived ease of use and usefulness, lifestyle and intention to use.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	Health informatics Mobile phone Acceptance Ageing women
Research Division:	Information and Computing Sciences
Research Group:	Library and information studies
Research Field:	Human information interaction and retrieval
Objective Division:	Information and Communication Services
Objective Group:	Information systems, technologies and services
Objective Field:	Information systems, technologies and services not elsewhere classified
UTAS Author:	Duh, B (Professor Henry Duh)
ID Code:	89979
Year Published:	2012
Web of Science® Times Cited:	67
Deposited By:	Information and Communication Technology
Deposited On:	2014-03-21
Last Modified:	2014-12-08
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