Adoption mechanism of telemedicine in underdeveloped country
Adoption mechanism of telemedicine in underdeveloped country
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欠发达国家远程医疗采用机制
DOI：
10.1177/1460458219868353
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发表时间：
2019-09-30
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
Zaman, Badee Uz
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作者：
Zhang, Xiang;Zaman, Badee Uz
本研究旨在揭示欠发达地区患者接受远程医疗意愿的影响机制。根据在巴基斯坦收集的 896 名患者的数据，我们发现患者的收养意愿是旅行费用、态度和感知有用性的函数。研究发现，高旅行成本对收养意愿具有最显着的负面影响。距离较短的患者更喜欢使用远程医疗。出行成本、出行时间和出行距离通过对感知有用性和感知易用性的显着影响，间接影响采用意愿。我们的研究结果表明，地理位置在远程医疗推广过程中确实很重要。这项研究还有助于确定发展中国家大规模采用远程医疗的真正障碍和促进因素，并缩小联合国千年发展目标和联合国可持续发展目标所关注的医疗保健公平差距。
The purpose of this study is to reveal the influential mechanism on patients' adoption intention of telemedicine in the underdeveloped areas. Based on 896 patients' data collected in Pakistan, we found that patients' adoption intention is a function of traveling cost, attitudes, and perceived usefulness. High traveling cost is found to have the most significant negative influence on adoption intention. Patients with shorter distance prefer more to use telemedicine. Traveling cost, traveling time, and traveling distance have indirect influences on adoption intention through their significant impacts on perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. Our findings indicate that geographic locations does matter during promotion of telemedicine. This study also helps identify the true barriers and facilitators to large-scale adoption of telemedicine in developing countries and reduce the gap of healthcare equity as concerned by both UN Millennium Development Goals and UN Sustainable Development Goals.