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Most people who use smartwatches and other wearable devices that can track health are white, well-educated, and wealthy. That\u2019s not because other groups aren\u2019t interested in using the devices to keep tabs on their fitness, heart rate, or other metrics, according to a new study<\/a>. It\u2019s just that the cost of these devices is too high. That leaves lower-income groups and racial minority groups excluded <\/strong>from research studies that use wearable data. <\/p>\n

The study was conducted by researchers at the All of Us Research Program, an initiative at the National Institutes of Health aiming to build a health database that\u2019s representative of the United States. The team is purposefully seeking to include groups historically underrepresented in medical research. As part of the program, the researchers wanted to let program participants send health data directly from Fitbit devices. They found, though, that the demographics of the people who decided to send data were whiter and wealthier than the racial and socioeconomic diversity of the project as a whole. <\/p>\n

To figure out why, the team surveyed over 1,000 patients at six Federally Qualified Health Centers, which provide medical care to underserved communities. Around 40 percent of the people who responded identified as Hispanic, 36 percent as non-Hispanic Black or African American, and 15 percent as non-Hispanic white. Two-thirds of the surveys were done in English, and one-third were done in Spanish. Most had a high school education or less. <\/p>\n

Over half of the people who responded to the survey said that they\u2019d be interested in a fitness tracker, saying that they\u2019d be interested in things like tracking their steps or heart rate. Of the group that was interested, 49 percent said that they don\u2019t<\/em> have a tracker because they\u2019re too expensive. Almost 20 percent said that they don\u2019t know how to use them, and 15 percent said that they don\u2019t know how a tracker could help \u2014 but want to learn. <\/p>\n

The research team also found that language barriers can dissuade people from using a smartwatch: many Spanish-speaking participants were concerned by the use of \u201ctracker\u201d to describe the devices and thought that their movements would be monitored. <\/p>\n

As more and more health features get built into wearable devices, they\u2019re becoming a major tool used both for individual people\u2019s health and for medical research. But if groups like the ones served by Federally Qualified Health Centers are shut out from the products, smartwatches just end up reinforcing existing equity gaps in healthcare and in health research. When groups aren\u2019t represented in studies, results can\u2019t be generalized to those groups, and they miss out on the benefits of new findings. <\/p>\n

But the study findings show that deliberate work to close those gaps could help, members of the All of Us<\/em> team wrote in an editorial<\/a> in Stat<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s clear that the willingness of participants to adopt wearable technologies is there,\u201d they said. \u201cPurposeful efforts to build access, opportunity, and infrastructure will allow all communities to benefit from the scientific knowledge gained through wearable technology data.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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