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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2016.17.7.410

Differences on Satisfaction of Healthcare Applications by Smartphone Users' Characteristics  

Shim, Hun (Department of Planning, Wonju Medical Industry Technovalley)
Kim, Yu-Jeong (Department of Nursing.The Research Institute for Basic Science, Hoseo University)
Park, Mijeong (Department of Nursing.The Research Institute for Basic Science, Hoseo University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.17, no.7, 2016 , pp. 410-419 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study examined the satisfaction difference in the aspects of awareness, information quality, and availability in healthcare applications according to smartphone user's characteristics. Data collection was conducted between September 17th and September 21st 2014 on the 193 people who had used healthcare applications, and the data collected were analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-test, One-way ANOVA, and Kruskal-Wallis test using SPSS WIN 20.0. Differences in satisfaction of healthcare application were observed according to the general characteristics, and according to age, education level, and income, as well as for healthcare application use characteristics, according to operation system, total use period, the number of installed healthcare applications, the sources of main information, use frequency, and reasons of no use. To establish strategies for the effective spread of mobile healthcare and development and distribution of healthcare applications, it will be necessary to confirm smartphone users' characteristics and it is important to reflect them in the strategies. In addition, it is necessary to develop and implement a range of strategies to ceaselessly induce the users' motives of use and to improve their degree of satisfaction to secure the constant use of developed health care applications.
Keywords
Application; Development; Healthcare; Satisfaction; Smartphone;
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