Volume 5, Issue 3 (Fall 2018)                   jhbmi 2018, 5(3): 373-383 | Back to browse issues page

XML Persian Abstract Print


Ph.D in Science & Technology Policy, Assistant Professor, Information Technology Management Dept., Faculty of Management and Economics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract:   (6703 Views)
Introduction: Mobile Health refers to activities in the field of medicine and general health through using smart devices for gathering clinical healthcare data, presenting information about physicians, researchers and patients, supervising vital signs, and distant visits. Since using this accessible and inexpensive tool for healthcare education has not been developed yet in our country, this study was designed with the aim of identifying effective factors on the adoption of mobile health technology.
Method: In this survey research, the study population was pregnant women referred to Hospitals in Karaj who completed the designed questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive referential statistical methods (the single-variable t- test) and Friedman Test was used to prioritize the research variables.
Results: According to the research findings, ffacilitating conditions had the most effect on the adoption of mobile health technology followed by the variables of social influence, performance expectancy, effort expectancy, waiting time, attitude, information quality, technology anxiety, data privacy and security, trust, and hedonic motivation.
Conclusion: Facilitating conditions of using health mobile technology should be improved through increasing necessary financial, organizational and technical infrastructures of using health technology services and consequently increasing the acceptance of using this type of services. Also, with creating changes in thoughts, feelings, attitudes, the acceptance of this new technology should be facilitated.
 
Full-Text [PDF 1221 kb]   (1366 Downloads)    
Type of Study: Original Article | Subject: Mobile health
Received: 2017/11/21 | Accepted: 2018/08/15

Rights and permissions
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.