Survey of Digital Health Service Awareness and Adoption Among Older Adults in China

Jinan, Shandong survey of 451 older adults with chronic diseases from tertiary hospitals. The dataset contains cross-sectional survey results on awareness, intention, and adoption rates for three functional dimensions of digital health services. Sitong Wu published the data under CC-BY-4.0 license on figshare in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze the awareness-to-adoption gap for digital health services based on survey rates.
• Compare adoption rates across functional dimensions like online health management based on the description.
• Model the influence of eHealth literacy on digital service use based on structural equation modeling results.
• Identify barriers to digital health equity for older adults based on survey findings.

Strengths

• Survey includes 451 patients aged 60 years and older.
• Provides specific rates: overall awareness 45.60%, want 46.27%, adoption 18.27%.
• Analyzes three functional dimensions: access to medical information, convenient medical services, and online health management.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is from a single cross-sectional study in Jinan, Shandong; geographic scope is limited.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Systematic sampling survey of patients from tertiary hospitals.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-24 05:36:27; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Jinan, Shandong, China