PMID- 37863099
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20240108
LR  - 20240108
IS  - 1552-4523 (Electronic)
IS  - 0733-4648 (Linking)
VI  - 43
IP  - 2
DP  - 2024 Feb
TI  - Social Factors and Older Adults' Use of Wearable Activity Trackers: Before and 
      During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
PG  - 182-193
LID - 10.1177/07334648231205417 [doi]
AB  - Wearable activity trackers (WAT) have shown high potential to improve health in 
      the aging population. Evidence links various social factors with WAT use in older 
      adults, but mainly within small samples and the prevalence of their WAT use 
      during the COVID-19 is unknown. We reported WAT use prevalence before and during 
      the first wave of COVID-19 and examined social factors associated with WAT use 
      frequency using a nationally representative sample of 3302 U.S. older adults. We 
      used Multinomial Logistic Regression to identify social factors associated with 
      WAT use frequency. Only 10.3% of pre-COVID-19 and 10.9% of first-wave subsamples 
      were frequent WAT users. Older adults aged 75 and above and those with low 
      incomes were less likely to frequently use WATs. Our findings suggest 
      socioeconomic and age disparities in WAT use among older Americans. Future 
      studies should focus on enhancing low-income older adults' WAT adoption to enable 
      equal access to WAT-related health benefits.
FAU - Li, Mengchi
AU  - Li M
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5066-8012
AD  - Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. RINGGOLD: 
      105871
FAU - Huang, Jing
AU  - Huang J
AD  - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. RINGGOLD: 1466
FAU - Budhathoki, Chakra
AU  - Budhathoki C
AD  - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. RINGGOLD: 1466
FAU - Li, Qiwei
AU  - Li Q
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3677-1523
AD  - California State University, Baltimore, MD, USA. RINGGOLD: 14665
FAU - Samuel, Laura
AU  - Samuel L
AD  - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. RINGGOLD: 1466
FAU - Szanton, Sarah L
AU  - Szanton SL
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5418-4982
AD  - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. RINGGOLD: 1466
FAU - Schrack, Jennifer A
AU  - Schrack JA
AD  - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. RINGGOLD: 1466
FAU - Li, Junxin
AU  - Li J
AD  - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. RINGGOLD: 1466
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20231020
PL  - United States
TA  - J Appl Gerontol
JT  - Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern 
      Gerontological Society
JID - 8606502
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - United States/epidemiology
MH  - Aged
MH  - *Fitness Trackers
MH  - *COVID-19/epidemiology
MH  - Pandemics
MH  - Social Factors
MH  - Aging
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - COVID-19
OT  - socioeconomic status
OT  - technology
COIS- Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts 
      of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this 
      article.
EDAT- 2023/10/21 05:43
MHDA- 2024/01/08 06:41
CRDT- 2023/10/20 19:09
PHST- 2024/01/08 06:41 [medline]
PHST- 2023/10/21 05:43 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/10/20 19:09 [entrez]
AID - 10.1177/07334648231205417 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Appl Gerontol. 2024 Feb;43(2):182-193. doi: 10.1177/07334648231205417. Epub 
      2023 Oct 20.