Influential Factors of Wearable Activity Trackers Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Based On The Big Five Personality Traits (Preprint)

Abstract

BACKGROUND In China, for most diabetic patients, wearable activity trackers are an innovative product that has not yet been generally accepted and used. Many studies have proved personality traits to affect patients' self-management behavior with chronic diseases, the willingness to adopt medical services, and willingness to use mobile healthcare equipment. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate the influence of personality traits of type 2 diabetes patients on the use intention of the intelligent wearable device -- wearable activity trackers METHODS A self-designed questionnaire and Chinese Big Five Personality Inventory brief version (CBF-PI-B) were used to investigate type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients from 22 community health service stations affiliated to 4 community health service centers in Tongzhou District and Shunyi District of Beijing. RESULTS A total of 728 cases were included in this study. Monofactor analysis indicated differences between patients with different genders in neuroticism, individual innovation, and behavioral intention, differences between patients with different ages in neuroticism, openness, individual innovation, and privacy concerns, differences between patients with different degree of education in openness, extraversion, perceived ease of use, the individual innovation and social image, and differences between patients with different income levels in openness, extraversion, perceived ease of use and individual innovation. The structural equation showed that perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, social image, and privacy concern had direct effects on behavioral intention (β=0.158, 0.223, 0.151, -0.657). Neuroticism had a positive impact on social image and privacy concerns (β=0.144, 0.154). Conscientiousness and openness had a positive influence on perceived ease of use (β=0.147, 0.142). Agreeableness showed negative impacts on both perceived ease of use and privacy concerns (β=-0.108, -0.251). Openness and extroversion both had a positive impact on individual innovation (β=0.149, 0.180) while openness generated a positive influence on social image (β=0.189). CONCLUSIONS Different personality traits had influences on individual innovation, privacy concerns and social image, and indirectly affect patients’ intention to use wearable activity trackers. Therefore, personalized guidance and health education could be carried out according to different personality traits when using intelligent wearable devices in the intervention of patients with type 2 diabetes.

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