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How can acceptance of wearable health technology affect behavioral intent to use telehealth services by elderly patients
Conocchiari Moran, D. (2022) How can acceptance of wearable health technology affect behavioral intent to use telehealth services by elderly patients.
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| Abstract: | The capabilities of the Internet of Things has grown exponentially allowing for new services to be implemented for the benefit of connecting people to businesses and services. The healthcare sector was greatly affected the past few years due to Covid-19 thus the development of healthcare platforms can be beneficial. The focus of this paper is on the adoption of a telehealth platform by the elderly, and to understand how telehealth can support the elderly through wearable health technologies that assist the healthcare services and the elderly, by providing them with a systematic disease management process. Early identification of disease deterioration and timely medical intervention are the cornerstones of telehealth. Using the Technology Acceptance Model by Davis,1989. we can gain an insight on the attitudes towards these wearable health technologies through their perceived ease of use and usefulness, ideally, leading to the adoption of a telehealth service. Quantitative research was done, which consisted of a survey focused on understanding the demographics and perceived attitudes of the elderly towards wearable health technology and a telehealth system. Through multiple linear regression analysis, the findings showed that perceived usefulness has a positive effect on acceptance while it was found that perceived ease of use did not have such a positive effect on acceptance of telehealth. It was found that factors such as New Technology Usage and Smart phone usage had a significant effect on elderly’s perceived ease of use. Concluding that acceptance of technology indeed had a positive effect on behavioural intention to use, with the influence of a positive perceived ease of use. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Programme: | International Business Administration BSc (50952) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/93563 |
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