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Telemedicine as a Tool for Equal Access to Healthcare: Are Older Koreans Ready to Adopt It? (104212)
Session: On Demand
Room: Virtual Video Presentation
Presentation Type: Virtual Presentation
While the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a worldwide growth of telemedicine utilization for improved access to healthcare, telemedicine in South Korea has been under a unique circumstance in which its utilization was prohibited by law before the pandemic. With this prohibition repealed, a better understanding of the Korean patient perspectives should be gained. The present research aimed to examine older Koreans’ perspectives on telemedicine in the post-pandemic era. Research questions included to what extent older Koreans intended to use telemedicine for primary care, as well as which factor significantly predicted their intention to use it. Two theoretical frameworks, the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology and Andersen’s behavioral model of health service use, guided the development of the research model. Cross-sectional survey data were collected for a quantitative examination of the research questions. The target respondents of the survey were Koreans who were community-dwelling in South Korea and who were ages 60 or older. A total of 200 surveys were collected between April 8, 2024 and May 12, 2024 and were analyzed with structural equation modeling. The results indicated that older Koreans’ intention to use telemedicine was at a neutral point. Among the hypothesized predictors, including effort expectancy, performance expectancy, social influence, and facilitating conditions, performance expectancy had a positive association with the intention to use telemedicine. Performance expectancy also significantly mediated the relationship between social influence and the intention. With sociodemographic characteristics treated as control variables, age was negatively associated with the intention.
Authors:
Cherrie Park, Konkuk University, South Korea
About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Park is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Welfare Gangseo University, South Korea.
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