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. 2023 Aug 18;25:e41805. doi: 10.2196/41805

Table 2.

Definitions of outcome variables.

Outcome variables Definition Study, year
Perceived privacy concern The extent to which an individual is concerned about whether their health information is safe from potential compromises (such as errors, data collection practices, unauthorized access, or secondary use of data) Angst and Agarwal [76], 2009
Perceived trust The degree to which an individual believes that a data-sharing platform is reliable and trustworthy Hall and McGraw [77], 2014
Perceived transparency The degree to which the procedure in which sensitive health data are collected, accessed, and used is transparent Kim et al [78], 2015
Perceived data ownership The extent to which an individual believes that a data-sharing platform recognizes their ownership rights on their raw health data Kish and Topol [79], 2015
Perceived anonymity The extent to which an individual thinks that a data-sharing platform removes personal identifiers from sensitive health data for sharing purposes Till et al [80], 2017
Perceived incentives The extent to which an individual believes that a data-sharing platform offers him or her a particular incentive to share health information for clinical research Roberts et al [81], 2017
Perceived control The extent to which an individual believes that he or she can control the authorization and consent process of data sharing Gordon and Catalini [82], 2018
Willingness to use The extent to which an individual is likely to use a particular data-sharing mechanism to share their personal health information with a research organization Esmaeilzadeh [58], 2019
Perceived efficiency The extent to which an individual believes that a data-sharing platform can efficiently connect data holders and data users Shabani [48], 2019