背景:数字健康正变得无处不在,我们必须确保准入公平。大多数高收入国家的土著人民通常没有像其他公民那样从通常的医疗保健系统和技术中受益。尽管原住民和托雷斯海峡岛民有明显的兴趣,热情的使用,新技术,很少有研究调查了老年原住民和托雷斯海峡岛民妇女的需求或兴趣。
目的:本研究优先考虑老年土著和托雷斯海峡岛民妇女的观点,利用他们与土著知识方式相关的专业知识,being,和做,以及他们在家庭和社区中的独特地位,设计一个使用数字技术来改善自己和家人以及社区健康的模型。
方法:本研究招募了来自4个伙伴组织的老年土著和托雷斯海峡岛民妇女。这项共同设计的定性研究包括公民科学家制定协议以及收集,分析,解释数据。我们用Yarning,一种经过验证的土著研究方法,可用于与土著人民进行健康研究,并被视为尊重和文化安全,作为主要的研究工具。土著方法的使用和我们的迭代过程使我们能够深入探索和纳入所有参与者的观点,并确保具有生活经验的土著公民科学家的观点享有特权。数据检查方法也使用了一种调整方法,这确保了研究结果和从研究结果得出的转化模型得到了参与者的验证.
结果:参与者包括24名土著和托雷斯海峡岛民妇女,年龄≥41岁,包括3代没有与互联网一起成长:老年人,婴儿潮一代,这项研究的主要发现是,老年妇女使用各种数字技术来改善自己和家人以及社区的健康和福祉。老年土著妇女希望有一个文化敏感的网络空间,专门满足她们的需求,并包括可访问和高效的相关内容和功能。我们的转化模型强调了任何人使用数字健康技术的必要条件,总结了促进数字健康公平所需的基本要素,并阐明了老年人和托雷斯海峡岛民妇女从数字健康技术中充分受益的未满足的需求和要求。
结论:健康是一项基本权利。随着我们越来越依赖数字医疗解决方案,我们必须认识到并解决需求不同的少数人的关切。我们必须紧急解决金融问题,连通性,和其他限制因素强调了年龄较大的土著和托雷斯海峡岛民妇女在这项研究中限制了公平获得数字健康工具。
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Digital health is becoming ubiquitous, and we must ensure equity in access. Indigenous people across most high-income countries typically have not benefited as much as other citizens from usual health care systems and technologies. Despite Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people\'s clear interest in, and enthusiastic use of, new technologies, little research has examined the needs or interests of older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.
This
study prioritizes the perspectives of older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, tapping into their expertise associated with Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing, as well as their unique position within their families and communities, to design a model for using digital technologies to improve health for themselves and their families as well as their communities.
Older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women from 4 partner organizations were recruited for this
study. This co-designed qualitative research included citizen scientists in shaping the protocol as well as collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data. We used yarning, an Indigenous research method validated for use in health research with Indigenous people and seen as respectful and culturally safe, as a primary research tool. The use of Indigenous methodologies and our iterative process enabled us to deeply explore and incorporate perspectives from all participants and ensure that the perspectives of Indigenous citizen scientists with lived experience were privileged. The data-checking methods also used a yarning methodology, which ensured that the findings and translational model derived from the findings were validated by the participants.
Participants comprised 24 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women aged ≥41 years and including 3 generations that did not grow up with the internet: seniors, baby boomers, and Generation X. The key findings in this research were that older women use various digital technologies to improve health and well-being for themselves and their families as well as their communities. Older Aboriginal women want a culturally sensitive cyberspace that caters specifically to their needs and includes relevant content and functionality that are accessible and efficient. Our translational model highlights the conditions necessary for anyone to use digital health technologies, summarizes the essential elements needed to promote equity in digital health, and illuminates the unmet needs and requirements for older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women to fully benefit from digital health technologies.
Health is a fundamental right. As we move toward greater reliance on digital health solutions, we must recognize and address the concerns of the smaller populations of people who differ in their needs. We must urgently address the financial, connectivity, and other limiting factors highlighted by older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in this
study that limit equitable access to digital health tools.
RR2-10.1177/20552076221084469.