Students Seeking Health-related Information over Internet

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 352-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asad Ahmad ◽  
Mohammed Naved Khan
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Behavioural Intention ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Related Information ◽  
College Going ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Acceptance Model

The use of Internet to search information related to health has become a common phenomenon. This article investigates the seeking of health-related information of the college going students over the Internet. The researchers have tested the technology acceptance model (TAM) to determine the behavioural intention of the students to seek health-related information over the Internet. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed among the students who were involved in Internet use. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were applied to the responded data. The results showed that it is the perceived usefulness (PU) which has a direct impact on the behavioural intention of the Internet users to search health-related information over the Internet.

Exploring the use of internet by university students for seeking health related information

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asad Ahmad ◽  
Mohammed Naved Khan ◽  
Obaidur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Tam Model ◽  
Health Related ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Use Of Internet

Purpose Internet is both a medium and a platform for information exchange. This characteristic of internet is gradually metamorphosing it into an e-learning enabler. A significant percentage of internet users access health-related information through the medium of internet, but little is known about the factors that determine such behaviour. This study aims to explore the factors that determine the behaviour of those seeking health-related information in the virtual world. Design/methodology/approach The present study analyses the role of perceived ease of usefulness (PEOU), perceived usefulness (PU), self-efficacy (SE) and information quality (IQ) on the intention (IU) of the internet users to seek health-related information. Researcher-controlled sampling was used for data collection from 210 university students. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA), t-test and correlation have been used for data analysis. Findings The results of the study demonstrate that except SE, all other factors have a positive relationship with the intention of the users to seek health-related information. The findings suggest that PU and IQ overshadow PEOU in encouraging the users seeking such health-related information over the internet. Originality/value The present study extends the understanding of e-learning adoption associated with seeking health-related information. The researchers propose an extended technology acceptance model (TAM) model to study the factors influencing the use of internet in seeking health-related information by the students enrolled in medical and non-medical courses.

scholarly journals The Internet as a source of health-related information among Internet users in the Lodz region, Poland

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 221-224
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Kardas ◽  
Agnieszka Daszyńska ◽  
Małgorzata Koziarska-Rościszewska
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Health Related

User Acceptance of eGovernment Services

2015 ◽  
pp. 1684-1697
Author(s):  
Serdar Yarlıkaş ◽  
İbrahim Arpacı ◽  
Gülgün Afacan
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Actual System ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Content System ◽  
Acceptance Model

This chapter identifies user satisfaction levels of eGovernment services. Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) deals with the prediction of the acceptability of an information system. TAM posits that perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use determine an individual's adoption of a system with intention to use serving as a mediator of actual system usage. In this chapter, a modified version of the TAM is proposed to predict the acceptability of eGovernment services and to identify the modifications, which must be brought to the system in order to make it acceptable to users. In the chapter, one of the most used eGovernment projects, e-school, is investigated according to TAM. An Internet-based survey questionnaire was applied to identify factors that influence users' satisfaction from one of the eGovernment services in Turkey. The sample was 30 teachers, who are working in public and private schools. A factor analysis was conducted on the questionnaire items, and a regression analysis, dependent on the factor analysis, was performed to determine and evaluate the effects of the factors on user satisfaction. The authors found that five main factors have significant affect on the satisfaction of users related to the e-School system. These factors are utilitarian ease of use, system usefulness, system content, system usability, and ease of use. The authors contributed to existing literature by adding a new construct, which refers to utilitarian ease of use.

scholarly journals Health Advertising on Short-Video Social Media: A Study on User Attitudes Based on the Extended Technology Acceptance Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 1501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Zhao ◽  
Jianfei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Technology Acceptance Model ◽  
Purchase Intention ◽  
User Acceptance ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Short Video ◽  
Acceptance Model

The rapid development of short-video social network platforms provides us with an opportunity to conduct health-related advertising and recommendation. However, so far, there are no empirical evidence on whether users are willing to accept health-related short-video advertisements. Here, acceptance refers to purchase intention, meaning that users will read short-video ads, share ads with others, or even open the product link embedded in ads to purchase the product. In this paper, we make the first attempt to model and quantify user acceptance of health-related short-video advertisements. Particularly, we propose a new research model that enhances the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) with two new designs. First, we propose four new antecedents including social interaction, intrusiveness, informativeness, and relevance into the original TAM to reflect the features of short-video social networks. Second, we introduce two mediator variables including perceived usefulness and attitude so that we can better study how different factors affect user acceptance of health-related short-video ads. We perform a survey on the Internet and conduct an empirical analysis of the surveyed data. The results show that the four antecedents as well as the perceived ease of use have significant influences on perceived usefulness, attitude, and purchase intention. Further, perceived usefulness plays a valid mediating role in attitude and purchase intention. We also found that users’ perceived ease of use on health-related short-video ads cannot significantly predict users’ attitudes toward ads. This is a new finding in social media-oriented ads. Finally, we integrate the empirical findings and present reasonable suggestions for advertisers and marketers to promote health-related short-video ads.

scholarly journals ANALISIS PERCEIVED ENJOYMENT SEBAGAI VARIABEL ANTISEDEN TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL

Performance ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Meilani Sugiarto
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
Young People ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Technology Acceptance Model ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Perceived Enjoyment ◽  
Acceptance Model ◽  
Main Support

Young people was active users of the information technology, especially internet. Even some of them tend to make the internet as a medium of the main support daily activities. These study indicate that internet use among young people, especially college student tend to have a model of its own behavior, making it attractive for further investigation. These study focus on the influence of perceived enjoyment as variables anticedent in the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The respondents of these study were college student as internet users in Yogyakarta, the province is considering a student city. These study conducted on 130 respondents. According to the structural analysis with SEM method, shows that perceive enjoyment has a role as anticedent variable on TAM, because those variable has significant effects on variables in technology acceptance model.        

scholarly journals Analysis of the technology acceptance model in examining students' behavioural intention to use an e-portfolio system

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronnie H. Shroff ◽  
Christopher C. Deneen ◽  
Eugenia M. W. Ng
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Technology Acceptance Model ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Behavioural Intention ◽  
Intention To Use ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Acceptance Model

<span>In recent years, instructors have had an increasing interest in integrating Internet based technologies into their classroom as part of the learning environment. Compared to studies on other information systems, student users' behaviour towards e-portfolios have not been assessed and thoroughly understood. This paper analyses the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) in order to examine students' behavioural intention to use an electronic portfolio system, meaning how students use and appropriate it within the specific framework of a course. An E-Portfolio Usage Questionnaire was developed using existing scales from prior TAM instruments and modified where appropriate. Seventy-two participants completed the survey questionnaire measuring their responses to perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PEOU), attitudes towards usage (ATU) and behavioural intention to use (BIU) the e-portfolio system. The results of the study indicated that students' perceived ease of use (PEOU) had a significant influence on attitude towards usage (ATU). Subsequently, perceived ease of use (PEOU) had the strongest significant influence on perceived usefulness (PU). The research further demonstrated that individual characteristics and technological factors may have a significant influence on instructors to adopt e-portfolio into their courses. Results suggest that TAM is a solid theoretical model where its validity can extend to an e-portfolio context.</span>

Investigating the Connection Between Awareness and Internet Non-Use

2018 ◽  
pp. 1468-1487
Author(s):  
Carol Ting
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Measurement Instruments ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Affective Attitude ◽  
Attitude Test ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Acceptance Model ◽  
Adoption Intention

Empirical studies on technology adoption usually are based on data from self-reported measures, and a large subset of this literature draws on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) or Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). However, for non-Internet users, self-reported measures and these theoretical frameworks face important limitations: non-users often are under-informed about the technology and are unable to accurately explain their non-use. In addition, the measurement instruments in the TAM/TPB literature often are not applicable to non-users. Addressing these issues, this paper examines non-Internet users' awareness of the Internet's benefits and its impact on adoption intention. Focusing on the under-informed, this approach substitutes awareness for perceived usefulness (or affective attitude). Test results demonstrate good predictive power on non-Internet users' adoption intention, calling for caution when applying these commonly used analytical tools to study late-adopters of technology.

Internet of Things Technologies

2021 ◽  
pp. 29-44
Author(s):  
Liew Chung Sim ◽  
Ang Ju Min ◽  
Goh Yee Teen ◽  
Koh Wai Kin ◽  
Tan Shy Yin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Influencing Factor ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Behavioural Intention ◽  
Intention To Use ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Acceptance Model ◽  
Internet Of Things Technology

The aim of this research is to examine factors influencing consumer acceptance of internet of things technology (IoT) guiding by the technology acceptance model (TAM). This quantitative research involves 204 respondents approached via convenience sampling at a public higher learning institution. Data was analyzed using multiple regression, and results revealed that the dimension of perceived usefulness is the most influencing factor on the consumers' acceptance of IoT technology and consumers' behavioural intention to use. In the Malaysian context, this research provides additional information in narrowing the research gap with regard to understanding behavioural intention to use the IoT technology. Next, the framework will be used for future exploration to address the issue of how people who have never utilized an IoT innovation react.

Adoption of Short Messaging Service (SMS) in Malaysia

2012 ◽  
pp. 44-55
Author(s):  
Ainin Sulaiman ◽  
Ali Hussein Saleh Zolait
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Behavioural Intention ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Short Messaging Service ◽  
Perceived Enjoyment ◽  
Acceptance Model

Short Messaging Service (SMS) being an almost instantaneous communication medium that connects people is now a phenomenon that has grown and spread around the globe at an amazing speed. Given the current trend of SMS usage and its potential growth, this paper provides an insight into SMS adoption. The study attempts to delineate the demographics and usage profile of SMS users in Malaysia, as well as explaining the factors influencing SMS adoption in Malaysia by using a modified version of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), which was originally introduced by Davis (1989). The study presents the demographic and usage profile in terms of gender, age, occupation, monthly personal income, extent of SMS usage and so forth of 489 SMS users from four institutions of education in the Klang Valley and Selangor. The present research uses and validates the scales for variables developed by earlier studies, namely perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived enjoyment, and perceived fees, which are hypothesized to be fundamental determinants of behavioural intention. The scale items for the said variables were tested for reliability, correlation and regression. The application of correlation analysis reveals a significant relationship among the independent variables, namely, perceived usefulness, perceived enjoyment, and perceived ease of use with the dependent variable that is behavioural intention. With regards to the level of importance derived from regression analysis, usefulness ranks the highest, followed by ease of use and enjoyment in explaining SMS adoption in Malaysia. Perceived fees do not seem to have a significant relationship with behavioural intention. Some implications, limitations and recommendations for future research are also discussed.

Using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) in Understanding Customers’ Behavioural Intention to Use E-CRM: Evidence from the Banking Industry

2021 ◽  
pp. 097226292110605
Author(s):  
Anupreet Kaur Mokha ◽  
Pushpender Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Technology Acceptance Model ◽  
Banking Industry ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Behavioural Intention ◽  
Intention To Use ◽  
Acceptance Model

The present study has aimed to understand the customers’ behavioural intention to use electronic customer relationship management (E-CRM) in the banking industry, using the technology acceptance model (TAM). Purposive sampling technique is used to collect data from 300 banks that included customers from Delhi (India), and partial least square-structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was employed. The reliability and the validity of the overall model were evaluated using the measurement model, and the hypotheses were tested using the structural model. The results reveal that E-CRM had a positive impact on both perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use, which, in turn, had a positive impact on the attitude towards using E-CRM, which ultimately led to a positive behavioural intention of customers towards using E-CRM. This study reveals that there is a large potential for policymakers to raise awareness and acceptance of E-CRM services among the customers.

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