Paper Info
Title
Patient Compliance Behavior in a Mobile Healthcare System: An Integration of Theories of Rational Choice and Planned Behavior
Abstract
The lack of patient compliance to medical recommendations and treatments suggested by doctors has long been a significant problem. In practice, patient education is considered an important intervention to empower patients and increase their compliance. It has been advocated as a means of improving patient medical knowledge and compliance. However, evidence of the efficacy of computer-aided patient education is still relatively limited, little is known on how the latest mobile technologies affect patients' compliance behavior. Based on Rational Choice Theory (RCT) and Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), we propose and test a research model to investigate the compliance behavior of patients supported by a mobile healthcare system. We conducted a field survey with actual patients in the U.S. Who used the system, and employed SEM techniques for data analysis. Overall, we found strong support for using RCT and TPB as a key theoretical foundation to assess patients' compliance behavior.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/HICSS.2015.360
HICSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
medical information systems,health care,medical treatments,computer-aided patient education,us,tpb,data analysis,rct,behavioural sciences,medical recommendations,patient compliance behavior,mobile technologies,rational choice theory,sem techniques,patient medical knowledge,theory of planned behavior,mobile computing,computer aided instruction,patient treatment,mobile healthcare system,mobile communication
Mobile technology,Rational choice theory,Field survey,Computer science,Knowledge management,Randomized controlled trial,Theory of planned behavior,Patient education,Healthcare system,Mobile telephony
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1530-1605
0
0.34
References 
Authors
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dezhi Wu19916.89
Paul Benjamin Lowry2164381.81
Dongsong Zhang3159999.71