Factors Influencing the Intention to Use Mobile Health Applications Among Young Adults in Malaysia

Abstract

Mobile health applications are the confluence of wireless technologies in mobile and computing device health statistics systems. This study explains the factors of effort expectancy, performance expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions and health consciousness that influence young adults’ intention in Malaysia to use mobile health applications. A cross-sectional design was used to collect quantitative data from 312 Malaysian respondents, and the data was collected via an online survey. The relationships between the factors to use mobile health applications were investigated in this study. All the factors positively affected the relationship between the intention to use mobile health applications. The findings revealed that health consciousness greatly impacted the intentions to use mobile health applications. Other theories can be applied to guide future studies to discover more factors that influence young adults to use mobile health applications.