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

451 older adults with chronic diseases in Jinan, China were surveyed on their awareness, desire, and use of digital health services. The dataset shows a high awareness rate of 45.60% but a low adoption rate of only 18.27%. Sitong Wu published this cross-sectional study data under a CC-BY-4.0 license in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze the awareness-to-adoption gap for digital health services based on survey results.
• Model the impact of eHealth literacy on service adoption based on structural equation modeling results.
• Compare adoption rates across functional dimensions like access to medical information, convenient services, and online health management.
• Identify barriers to digital health equity for older adults based on demographic and health status factors.

Strengths

• Survey data from 451 patients provides a specific sample size.
• Results include precise rates: 45.60% awareness, 46.27% want, and 18.27% adoption.
• Analysis covers three distinct functional dimensions of digital health services.

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 geographic region (Jinan, Shandong), which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Sitong Wu

Collection Method

Cross-sectional survey using systematic sampling from tertiary hospitals.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-24 05:36:29; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Jinan, Shandong, China