Garavand Ali, Samadbeik Mahnaz, Nadri Hamed, Rahimi Bahlol, Asadi Heshmatollah
Department of Health Information Management and Technology, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Health Information Technology, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran.
Methods Inf Med. 2019 Nov;58(4-05):131-139. doi: 10.1055/s-0040-1701607. Epub 2020 Mar 13.
Students with complex health care services process face constant challenges with regard to health education. The mobile devices are an important tool that can install various applications for using information such as clinical guidelines, drug resources, clinical calculations, and the latest scientific evidence without any time and place limitations. And this happens only when students accept and use it.
The purpose of this article is to identify the factors influencing students in their intention to use mobile health (mHealth) by using Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model.
A standard questionnaire was used to collect the data from nearly 302 Lorestan University of medical science students including nutrition and public health, paramedicine, nursing and midwifery, pharmacy, dentistry, and medical schools. The data were processed using LISREL (Scientific Software International, Inc., Lincolnwood, Illinois) and SPSS (IBM Corp., Armonk, New York) softwares and the statistical analysis technique was based on structural equation modeling (SEM).
A total of 300 questionnaires including valid responses were used in this study. The results showed that mediator of age did not affect the predictors of intention to use mHealth, and the level of education and gender directly affected the intention to use. In addition, effort expectancy, facilitating condition, and behavioral intention directly and indirectly have effect on use, whereas the result revealed no significant relationship between two important processes of performance expectancy and social influence with students' behavioral intention to use the mHealth.
The present study provides valuable information on mobile health acceptance factors for widespread use of this device among students of universities of medical sciences as a base infrastructure for a variety of information about health services and learning. Review and comparison of results with other studies showed that mHealth acceptance factors were different from other end users (elderly, patients, and health professionals).
需要复杂医疗服务流程的学生在健康教育方面面临持续挑战。移动设备是一种重要工具，它可以安装各种应用程序，用于获取临床指南、药物资源、临床计算和最新科学证据等信息，且不受任何时间和地点限制。但这只有在学生接受并使用它时才会发生。
本文旨在运用技术接受与使用统一理论（UTAUT）模型，确定影响学生使用移动健康（mHealth）意愿的因素。
使用标准问卷从近302名洛雷斯坦医科大学的学生中收集数据，这些学生来自营养与公共卫生、护理、药学、牙科和医学院等专业。数据使用LISREL（科学软件国际公司，伊利诺伊州林肯伍德）和SPSS（IBM公司，纽约州阿蒙克）软件进行处理，统计分析技术基于结构方程模型（SEM）。
本研究共使用了300份包括有效回复的问卷。结果表明，年龄中介因素不影响使用移动健康意愿的预测因素，而教育水平和性别直接影响使用意愿。此外，努力期望、促进条件和行为意愿直接或间接地对使用产生影响，而结果显示绩效期望和社会影响这两个重要过程与学生使用移动健康的行为意愿之间没有显著关系。
本研究为移动健康接受因素提供了有价值的信息，有助于在医科大学学生中广泛使用该设备，作为获取各种健康服务和学习信息的基础架构。与其他研究结果的回顾和比较表明，移动健康接受因素与其他终端用户（老年人、患者和卫生专业人员）不同。
