Digital Health Technology Use Among Spanish Speakers in the US

作者：Robin T. Higashi, Bhaskar Thakur, Emily C. Repasky, Alejandra Casillas, Bryan D. Steitz, Timothy P. Hogan, Christoph U. Lehmann, Eric D. Peterson, Ann Marie Návar, Robert W. Turer · 发表于：JAMA Network Open · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.10386 · 被引用次数：31 · 研究领域：Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation、Electronic Health Records Systems、Mobile Health and mHealth Applications

Importance: Digital health technologies include patient portals, telehealth, mobile health, and web-based resources; they have the potential to expand health care access, increase quality of care, and improve health outcomes. An emerging literature describes factors associated with disparities between Spanish and English speakers with the use of digital health tools and documents. Objective: To characterize barriers and facilitators and to inform hypothesis-generating questions and intervention planning associated with digital health technology use among Spanish-speaking populations in the US. Evidence Review: Between January 2023 and April 2024, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar were searched for publications between January 2013 and April 2024. Systematic reviews, protocols, editorials, abstracts, unpublished literature, non-peer-reviewed literature, and non-US-based and non-English studies were excluded. The Covidence platform was used to avoid duplicate records, and an abstract and full-text screening were then conducted for exclusions. Unstructured text in the final dataset was thematically analyzed. Findings: Of 688 publications searched, 192 were excluded as duplications, 277 were excluded from abstract screenings, and 113 were excluded from full-text screenings. Among the 106 included studies (68% of which were published between 2019 and 2024), 73 (69%) used quantitative methods, 15 (14%) used qualitative methods, and 18 (17%) used applied mixed metho...