Does Being Ill Improve Acceptance of Medical Technology?—A Patient Survey with the Technology Usage Inventory
| Autor: | Solaiman Raha, Kurt Jg Schmailzl, Frank Hufert, Sabur Safi, Gerhard Danzer, Eyyad Nassar |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Technology Emerging technologies Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis media_common.quotation_subject Control (management) ECG patch Computer-assisted web interviewing Disease user survey Article Surveys and Questionnaires technology acceptance Patient experience Pandemic medicine Humans wearable health monitor Pandemics media_common SARS-CoV-2 Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Health technology COVID-19 Family medicine Curiosity Medicine Psychology |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 9367, p 9367 (2021) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Volume 18 Issue 17 |
| ISSN: | 1661-7827 1660-4601 |
| Popis: | Acceptance of new medical technology may be influenced by social conditions and an individual’s background and particular situation. We studied this acceptance by hypothesizing that current and former COVID-19 patients would be more likely to accept an electrocardiogram (ECG) “patch” (attached to the chest) that allows continuous monitoring of the heart than individuals who did not have the disease and thus the respective experience. Currently infected COVID-19 patients, individuals who had recovered from COVID-19, and a control group were recruited online through Facebook (and Instagram) and through general practitioners (GPs). Demographic information and questions tailored to the problem were collected via an online questionnaire. An online survey was chosen in part because of the pandemic conditions, and Facebook was chosen because of the widespread discussions of health topics on that platform. The results confirmed the central hypothesis that people who had experienced a disease are more willing to accept new medical technologies and showed that curiosity about new technologies and willingness to use them were significantly higher in the two groups currently or previously affected by COVID-19, whereas fears of being “monitored” (in the sense of surveillance) were significantly higher among people who had not experienced the disease and threat. Experiencing a serious disease (“patient experience”) promotes acceptance of new medical technologies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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