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Dongxiao Gu

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ID3915221
NAMEDongxiao Gu
GIVEN NAMESDongxiao
FAMILY NAMEGu
SIGNATUREGU D
AFFILIATIONSHefei University of Technology
ORCID0000-0003-3557-009X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR16
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2
  • Substitution or augmentation? How organisational AI adoption approaches influence the willingness to stay of caregivers

    Open Access•Li Jiang, Xuli Wang et al.•ARTICLE•Computers in Human Behavior•2026

  • Positive feedback or indifference? Investigating the impact of gamification strategy on patient gift-giving behaviour in E-consultations

    Open Access•Xuejie Yang, Dongxiao Gu et al.•ARTICLE•Humanities and Social Sciences…•2026

    In the context of gamification strategy, online health communities (OHCs) have introduced patient feedback mechanisms, enabling patients to contribute to doctors’ success in gamified systems by offering gifts. However, the impact of doctors’ performance in online services on patients’ gift-giving behaviour and the underlying mechanisms driving this impact are relatively under-explored. Based on the expectancy violations theory, this study constru…

  • Mind your manners—or don’t

    Open Access•Kaixiang Su, Dongxiao Gu et al.•ARTICLE•Humanities and Social Sciences…•2026

    Politeness plays a central role in online health communication, yet its consequences for physicians’ service quality remain insufficiently understood. Drawing on social exchange theory, this study examines how patients’ linguistic politeness and impoliteness influence physicians’ informational and emotional support in a large Chinese online health community. Using computational text analysis and econometric modeling, we analyze physician–patient …

  • Gamification affordances in self-health management

    Jiayue Sun, Jinrong Sun et al.•ARTICLE•Internet Research•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    Purpose Gamification has been widely applied in mobile fitness apps to motivate users to exercise continuously. Based on the affordances–psychological outcomes–behavioral outcomes framework, this study explores the roles of three specific gamification affordances (competition, visibility of achievement and interactivity) in self-health management (continuous use behavior and health behavior) from the perspectives of achievement satisfaction and g…

  • Mobile health community loyalty development process in China

    Open Access•Xuejie Yang, Dongxiao Gu et al.•ARTICLE•Information Technology and People•2024

    Purpose This study aims to investigate the process of developing loyalty in the Chinese mobile health community from the information seeking perspective. Design/methodology/approach A covariance-based structural equation model was developed to explore the mobile health community loyalty development process from information seeking perspective and tested with LISREL 9.30 for the 191 mobile health platform user samples. Findings The empirical resul…

  • Understanding patients’ doctor choice behavior

    Open Access•Junhui Yan, Changyong Liang et al.•ARTICLE•Information Development•2024

    The rise of health 2.0 technologies has led to an increasing number of patients seeking medical advice in online health communities. This has ignited scholarly interest in exploring patients’ online doctor choice behaviors. While many researchers have examined the various determinants that impact this decision-making process, relatively few have delved into doctors’ functional quality embedded in doctor-patient interactions, and fewer have consid…

  • How Do Covid-19 Risk, Life-Safety Risk, Job Insecurity, and Work–Family Conflict Affect Miner Performance? Health-Anxiety and Job-Anxiety Perspectives

    Open Access•Wei Zhang, Dongxiao Gu et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2023

    The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has created challenging working conditions in coal-production activities. In addition to the massive loss of resources for miners, it has had a devastating impact on these individuals' mental health. Based on the conservation of resources (COR) theory and a resource-loss perspective, this study examined the impact of COVID-19 risk, life-safety risk, perceived job insecurity, and work-family conflict on miners' …

  • Mobile Social Media Use and Trailing Parents’ Life Satisfaction

    Open Access•Lei Zhao, Changyong Liang et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•2021

    In recent years, a special group of elderly migrants emerged in some developing countries, namely “trailing parents,” who migrated with adult children in their later years. Lots of developing countries such as China have an increasing number of old people using mobile social media for social interaction, information, and entertainment. Based on social capital theory, we developed a research model and investigated the relationship between mobile s…

  • Hospital Climate and Peer Report Intention on Adverse Medical Events

    Open Access•Xiaoxiang Li, Shuhan Zhang et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2021

    Adverse medical events (AMEs) often occur in the healthcare workplace, and studies have shown that a positive atmosphere can reduce their incidence by increasing peer report intention. However, few studies have investigated the effect and action mechanism therein. We aimed to extend upon these studies by probing into the relationship between hospital climate and peer report intention, along with the mediating effect of attribution tendency and mo…

  • Factors influencing health anxiety

    Open Access•Xuejie Yang, Dongxiao Gu et al.•ARTICLE•Internet Research•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 6

    Purpose With the popularity of the internet, access to health-related information has become more convenient. However, the easy acquisition of e-health information could lead to unfavorable consequences, such as health anxiety. The purpose of this paper is to explore a set of important influencing factors that lead to health anxiety. Design/methodology/approach Based on the stimulus–organism–response (S-O-R) framework, we propose a theoretical mo…

  • What advantages of blockchain affect its adoption in the elderly care industry? A study based on the technology–organisation–environment framework

    Open Access•Liyan Lu, Changyong Liang et al.•ARTICLE•Technology in Society•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 46

  • Assessing the Adoption of e-Health Technology in a Developing Country

    Open Access•Dongxiao Gu, Salman Khan et al.•ARTICLE•SAGE Open•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 78

    Electronic healthcare services are becoming an increasingly essential form of information and communication technology (ICT) that enables the fast and smooth delivery of health care, specifically in countries with scarce resources such as Pakistan. A better understanding of factors contributing to the adoption of electronic health care is needed, yet this remains an under-researched phenomenon. Grounded in the united theory of acceptance and use …

  • Factors Influencing College Students’ Mental Health Promotion

    Open Access•Wen-en Chen, Wenen Chen et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2020

    For college students, mental health is an important factor in ensuring their ability to study and have a normal life. This research focuses on factors affecting the mental health of college students in the information network society. We constructed a theoretical model that influences their online mental health information seeking behavior from internal and external perspectives, and by extension, affects their mental health. Through the data obt…

  • Effect of Patient Participation on Nurse and Patient Outcomes in Inpatient Healthcare

    Open Access•Bin Ding, Wei Liu et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2019

    Using service-dominant logic as a theoretical lens, this study investigated the co-production of healthcare service and service value co-creation between nurses and patients. The main objective of this study was to: (1) examine the effect of patient participation on patient satisfaction and nurses' attitudes and behaviors; (2) examine boundary conditions of the effect of patient participation on patients and nurses. We proposed that patient parti…

  • Social Media-Based Health Management Systems and Sustained Health Engagement

    Open Access•Dongxiao Gu, Jingjing Guo et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2019

    Background: With the popularity of mobile Internet and social networks, an increasing number of social media-based health management systems (SocialHMS) have emerged in recent years. These social media-based systems have been widely used in registration, payment, decision-making, chronic diseases management, health information and medical expenses inquiry, etc., and they greatly facilitate the convenience for people to obtain health services. Obj…

  • Understanding the Role of Mobile Internet-Based Health Services on Patient Satisfaction and Word-of-Mouth

    Open Access•Dongxiao Gu, Xuejie Yang et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2018

    With the rapid advancement of Web 2.0 technologies, Internet medicine, and mobile healthcare, the influence of the use of patient-oriented Mobile Internet-based Health Services (MIHS) on patient satisfaction and the electronic word-of-mouth (WOM) of health service agencies is becoming the focus of the academic research community. Many large hospitals, including some Internet hospitals, have provided various online healthcare service platforms tha…

  • Factors influencing health anxiety

    Open Access•Xuejie Yang, Dongxiao Gu et al.•ARTICLE•Internet Research•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 6

    Purpose With the popularity of the internet, access to health-related information has become more convenient. However, the easy acquisition of e-health information could lead to unfavorable consequences, such as health anxiety. The purpose of this paper is to explore a set of important influencing factors that lead to health anxiety. Design/methodology/approach Based on the stimulus–organism–response (S-O-R) framework, we propose a theoretical mo…

  • What advantages of blockchain affect its adoption in the elderly care industry? A study based on the technology–organisation–environment framework

    Open Access•Liyan Lu, Changyong Liang et al.•ARTICLE•Technology in Society•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 46

  • Gamification affordances in self-health management

    Jiayue Sun, Jinrong Sun et al.•ARTICLE•Internet Research•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    Purpose Gamification has been widely applied in mobile fitness apps to motivate users to exercise continuously. Based on the affordances–psychological outcomes–behavioral outcomes framework, this study explores the roles of three specific gamification affordances (competition, visibility of achievement and interactivity) in self-health management (continuous use behavior and health behavior) from the perspectives of achievement satisfaction and g…

  • Assessing the Adoption of e-Health Technology in a Developing Country

    Open Access•Dongxiao Gu, Salman Khan et al.•ARTICLE•SAGE Open•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 78

    Electronic healthcare services are becoming an increasingly essential form of information and communication technology (ICT) that enables the fast and smooth delivery of health care, specifically in countries with scarce resources such as Pakistan. A better understanding of factors contributing to the adoption of electronic health care is needed, yet this remains an under-researched phenomenon. Grounded in the united theory of acceptance and use …

  • Understanding the Role of Mobile Internet-Based Health Services on Patient Satisfaction and Word-of-Mouth

    Open Access•Dongxiao Gu, Xuejie Yang et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2018

    With the rapid advancement of Web 2.0 technologies, Internet medicine, and mobile healthcare, the influence of the use of patient-oriented Mobile Internet-based Health Services (MIHS) on patient satisfaction and the electronic word-of-mouth (WOM) of health service agencies is becoming the focus of the academic research community. Many large hospitals, including some Internet hospitals, have provided various online healthcare service platforms tha…

  • Effect of Patient Participation on Nurse and Patient Outcomes in Inpatient Healthcare

    Open Access•Bin Ding, Wei Liu et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2019

    Using service-dominant logic as a theoretical lens, this study investigated the co-production of healthcare service and service value co-creation between nurses and patients. The main objective of this study was to: (1) examine the effect of patient participation on patient satisfaction and nurses' attitudes and behaviors; (2) examine boundary conditions of the effect of patient participation on patients and nurses. We proposed that patient parti…

  • Social Media-Based Health Management Systems and Sustained Health Engagement

    Open Access•Dongxiao Gu, Jingjing Guo et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2019

    Background: With the popularity of mobile Internet and social networks, an increasing number of social media-based health management systems (SocialHMS) have emerged in recent years. These social media-based systems have been widely used in registration, payment, decision-making, chronic diseases management, health information and medical expenses inquiry, etc., and they greatly facilitate the convenience for people to obtain health services. Obj…

  • Factors Influencing College Students’ Mental Health Promotion

    Open Access•Wen-en Chen, Wenen Chen et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2020

    For college students, mental health is an important factor in ensuring their ability to study and have a normal life. This research focuses on factors affecting the mental health of college students in the information network society. We constructed a theoretical model that influences their online mental health information seeking behavior from internal and external perspectives, and by extension, affects their mental health. Through the data obt…

  • Mobile Social Media Use and Trailing Parents’ Life Satisfaction

    Open Access•Lei Zhao, Changyong Liang et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•2021

    In recent years, a special group of elderly migrants emerged in some developing countries, namely “trailing parents,” who migrated with adult children in their later years. Lots of developing countries such as China have an increasing number of old people using mobile social media for social interaction, information, and entertainment. Based on social capital theory, we developed a research model and investigated the relationship between mobile s…

  • Hospital Climate and Peer Report Intention on Adverse Medical Events

    Open Access•Xiaoxiang Li, Shuhan Zhang et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2021

    Adverse medical events (AMEs) often occur in the healthcare workplace, and studies have shown that a positive atmosphere can reduce their incidence by increasing peer report intention. However, few studies have investigated the effect and action mechanism therein. We aimed to extend upon these studies by probing into the relationship between hospital climate and peer report intention, along with the mediating effect of attribution tendency and mo…

  • Factors influencing health anxiety

    Open Access•Xuejie Yang, Dongxiao Gu et al.•ARTICLE•Internet Research•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 6

    Purpose With the popularity of the internet, access to health-related information has become more convenient. However, the easy acquisition of e-health information could lead to unfavorable consequences, such as health anxiety. The purpose of this paper is to explore a set of important influencing factors that lead to health anxiety. Design/methodology/approach Based on the stimulus–organism–response (S-O-R) framework, we propose a theoretical mo…

  • What advantages of blockchain affect its adoption in the elderly care industry? A study based on the technology–organisation–environment framework

    Open Access•Liyan Lu, Changyong Liang et al.•ARTICLE•Technology in Society•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 46

  • Assessing the Adoption of e-Health Technology in a Developing Country

    Open Access•Dongxiao Gu, Salman Khan et al.•ARTICLE•SAGE Open•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 78

    Electronic healthcare services are becoming an increasingly essential form of information and communication technology (ICT) that enables the fast and smooth delivery of health care, specifically in countries with scarce resources such as Pakistan. A better understanding of factors contributing to the adoption of electronic health care is needed, yet this remains an under-researched phenomenon. Grounded in the united theory of acceptance and use …

  • How Do Covid-19 Risk, Life-Safety Risk, Job Insecurity, and Work–Family Conflict Affect Miner Performance? Health-Anxiety and Job-Anxiety Perspectives

    Open Access•Wei Zhang, Dongxiao Gu et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2023

    The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has created challenging working conditions in coal-production activities. In addition to the massive loss of resources for miners, it has had a devastating impact on these individuals' mental health. Based on the conservation of resources (COR) theory and a resource-loss perspective, this study examined the impact of COVID-19 risk, life-safety risk, perceived job insecurity, and work-family conflict on miners' …

  • Mobile health community loyalty development process in China

    Open Access•Xuejie Yang, Dongxiao Gu et al.•ARTICLE•Information Technology and People•2024

    Purpose This study aims to investigate the process of developing loyalty in the Chinese mobile health community from the information seeking perspective. Design/methodology/approach A covariance-based structural equation model was developed to explore the mobile health community loyalty development process from information seeking perspective and tested with LISREL 9.30 for the 191 mobile health platform user samples. Findings The empirical resul…

  • Understanding patients’ doctor choice behavior

    Open Access•Junhui Yan, Changyong Liang et al.•ARTICLE•Information Development•2024

    The rise of health 2.0 technologies has led to an increasing number of patients seeking medical advice in online health communities. This has ignited scholarly interest in exploring patients’ online doctor choice behaviors. While many researchers have examined the various determinants that impact this decision-making process, relatively few have delved into doctors’ functional quality embedded in doctor-patient interactions, and fewer have consid…

  • Gamification affordances in self-health management

    Jiayue Sun, Jinrong Sun et al.•ARTICLE•Internet Research•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    Purpose Gamification has been widely applied in mobile fitness apps to motivate users to exercise continuously. Based on the affordances–psychological outcomes–behavioral outcomes framework, this study explores the roles of three specific gamification affordances (competition, visibility of achievement and interactivity) in self-health management (continuous use behavior and health behavior) from the perspectives of achievement satisfaction and g…

  • Substitution or augmentation? How organisational AI adoption approaches influence the willingness to stay of caregivers

    Open Access•Li Jiang, Xuli Wang et al.•ARTICLE•Computers in Human Behavior•2026

  • Positive feedback or indifference? Investigating the impact of gamification strategy on patient gift-giving behaviour in E-consultations

    Open Access•Xuejie Yang, Dongxiao Gu et al.•ARTICLE•Humanities and Social Sciences…•2026

    In the context of gamification strategy, online health communities (OHCs) have introduced patient feedback mechanisms, enabling patients to contribute to doctors’ success in gamified systems by offering gifts. However, the impact of doctors’ performance in online services on patients’ gift-giving behaviour and the underlying mechanisms driving this impact are relatively under-explored. Based on the expectancy violations theory, this study constru…

  • Mind your manners—or don’t

    Open Access•Kaixiang Su, Dongxiao Gu et al.•ARTICLE•Humanities and Social Sciences…•2026

    Politeness plays a central role in online health communication, yet its consequences for physicians’ service quality remain insufficiently understood. Drawing on social exchange theory, this study examines how patients’ linguistic politeness and impoliteness influence physicians’ informational and emotional support in a large Chinese online health community. Using computational text analysis and econometric modeling, we analyze physician–patient …

Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Technology Adoption and User Behaviour (7 works) · Health care (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Applied Psychology (5 works) · Customer Service Quality and Loyalty (5 works) · Digital Marketing and Social Media (5 works)

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