Table 4.
Country-level statistics.
| Country | Sample, n | MHISa (SD) | General smartphone use (SD) | COIQb (SD) | IDIc | CHEd | GINIe |
| China | 1238 | 3.34 (1.11) | 4.11 (0.67) | 4.85 (1.12) | 5.60 | 841.1 | 38.6 |
| India | 1238 | 3.39 (1.19) | 4.09 (0.71) | 5.36 (1.20) | 3.03 | 253.3 | 35.7 |
| Indonesia | 824 | 3.58 (1.11) | 4.03 (0.70) | 5.31 (1.11) | 4.33 | 367.9 | 38.1 |
| Japan | 804 | 2.09 (1.10) | 3.11 (0.93) | 4.28 (1.43) | 8.43 | 4563 | 32.1 |
| South Korea | 858 | 2.97 (1.21) | 3.68 (0.79) | 4.94 (1.19) | 8.85 | 2980 | 31.6 |
| Malaysia | 837 | 3.03 (1.18) | 3.82 (0.74) | 5.37 (1.06) | 6.38 | 1139 | 41.0 |
| Philippines | 843 | 3.37 (1.12) | 4.10 (0.64) | 5.55 (1.10) | 4.67 | 371.7 | 44.4 |
| Singapore | 814 | 2.75 (1.11) | 3.64 (0.78) | 5.23 (1.00) | 8.05 | 4270 | 35.6 |
| Thailand | 821 | 3.29 (1.20) | 4.10 (0.71) | 5.35 (1.12) | 5.67 | 670.9 | 36.5 |
| Vietnam | 809 | 3.72 (1.20) | 4.18 (0.71) | 5.46 (1.33) | 4.43 | 375.6 | 35.5 |
| All | 9086 | 3.17 (1.23) | 3.91 (0.80) | 5.16 (1.22) | 5.94 | 1583 | 36.9 |
aMHIS: mobile health information seeking.
bCOIQ: concern with online information quality.
cIDI: Information Communications Technology Development Index.
dCHE: current health expenditure per capita (purchasing power parity, 2017).
eGINI: Gini index (World Bank estimate).