Lecture, Dept. of Business Administration & Ph. D., Candidate, Dept. College of Nursing, Gyeongsang National University, 501, Jinju-daero, Jinju, Korea
Online published on 7 December, 2018.
This study was designed to examine factors affecting general hospital nurses’ behavioral intention to use new medical technology, if introduced, by using the Technology Acceptance Model. So this study is to understand the acceptance of new technology of nurses with self-efficacy and innovativeness of external variables of TAM.
The subjects were 140 general hospital nurses who agreed to participate in this study. With a questionnaire form, the study surveyed the participants. Of the collected sheets of the form, 8, unfaithfully filled in, was excluded and the remaining 132 were analyzed here using the descriptive statistics, t-test, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis test, correlation analysis and the multi-regression analysis in accordance with SPSS WIN 20.0.
General hospital nurses surveyed in this study showed significant differences in perceived usefulness and behavioral intention to use depending on marital status. Those nurses’ innovativeness, perceived usefulness and behavioral intention to use varied significantly depending on age. Their level of education was a factor of significant difference in innovativeness and self-efficacy. The surveyed nurses’ position brought their innovativeness, self-efficacy, perceived usefulness and behavioral intention to use to be significantly different. For the nurses, positive correlations were found among innovativeness, self-efficacy, perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness. Most affecting perceived ease of use was found perceived usefulness, followed by innovativeness. Both of the factors explained 62.0% of perceived ease of use. General hospital nurses’ behavioral intention to use new medical technology was significantly affected by their perceived usefulness, but not by their perceived ease of use.
Information or educational programs for an effective acceptance of new medical technology should be supported by strategies that lead nurses to recognize and innovatively accept the usefulness of such technology.
TAM, Health care, Nurses, Perceived usefulness, Perceived ease of use
