Applying the UTAUT2 framework to patients' attitudes toward healthcare task shifting with artificial intelligence

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BACKGROUND: Increasing patient loads, healthcare inflation and ageing population have put pressure on the healthcare system. Artificial intelligence and machine learning innovations can aid in task shifting to help healthcare systems remain efficient and cost effective. To gain an understanding of patients' acceptance toward such task shifting with the aid of AI, this study adapted the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2), looking at performance and effort expectancy, facilitating conditions, social influence, hedonic motivation and behavioural intention.

METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study which took place between September 2021 to June 2022 at the National Heart Centre, Singapore. One hundred patients, aged ≥ 21 years with at least one heart failure symptom (pedal oedema, New York Heart Association II-III effort limitation, orthopnoea, breathlessness), who presented to the cardiac imaging laboratory for physician-ordered clinical echocardiogram, underwent both echocardiogram by skilled sonographers and the experience of echocardiogram by a novice guided by AI technologies. They were then given a survey which looked at the above-mentioned constructs using the UTAUT2 framework.

RESULTS: Significant, direct, and positive effects of all constructs on the behavioral intention of accepting the AI-novice combination were found. Facilitating conditions, hedonic motivation and performance expectancy were the top 3 constructs. The analysis of the moderating variables, age, gender and education levels, found no impact on behavioral intention.

CONCLUSIONS: These results are important for stakeholders and changemakers such as policymakers, governments, physicians, and insurance companies, as they design adoption strategies to ensure successful patient engagement by focusing on factors affecting the facilitating conditions, hedonic motivation and performance expectancy for AI technologies used in healthcare task shifting.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

BMC health services research - 24(2024), 1 vom: 11. Apr., Seite 455

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Huang, Weiting [VerfasserIn]
Ong, Wen Chong [VerfasserIn]
Wong, Mark Kei Fong [VerfasserIn]
Ng, Eddie Yin Kwee [VerfasserIn]
Koh, Tracy [VerfasserIn]
Chandramouli, Chanchal [VerfasserIn]
Ng, Choon Ta [VerfasserIn]
Hummel, Yoran [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Feiqiong [VerfasserIn]
Lam, Carolyn Su Ping [VerfasserIn]
Tromp, Jasper [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Echocardiography
Healthcare artificial intelligence
Journal Article
Machine learning
Patient attitudes
Point-of-care ultrasound
Task shifting
Technology acceptance

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Date Completed 15.04.2024

Date Revised 25.04.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12913-024-10861-z

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM370946847