Members of the Centre for Social Informatics published an article in the journal Health & Social Care in the Community
Members of the Centre for Social Informatics at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Simona Hvalič-Touzery, PhD, Mojca Šetinc and Vesna Dolničar, PhD, have published an original scientific article titled »Exploring Acceptance Factors for Welfare Technology among Nurses in Non-Clinical Care for Older Adults: A Scoping Review« in the journal Health & Social Care in the Community.
In December 2022, the authors conducted an extensive systematic literature review to address the gap in understanding the factors influencing nurses’ acceptance of welfare technologies, both before and after using them. After reviewing seven bibliographic databases and grey literature, they examined 27 sources published between 2007 and 2022 that met the inclusion criteria. Through content-based analysis, they identified five groups of acceptance factors: individual, technological, organizational, patient-related, and social influence factors. While pre-use factors primarily included attitudes, needs, outcome expectations, and ethical concerns, the post-use factors more prominently featured experience, usefulness, technical issues, device characteristics, effort expectancy, and organisational factors. Patient-centeredness emerged as a key factor both before and after the use of technology. The study contributes to a better understanding of the factors that influence the acceptance of welfare technologies among nurses caring for older adults in non-clinical settings and highlights the central role of the patient in all aspects of nursing practice. The article also provides guidance for future research and practice.
The study was conducted as part of the research projects J5-4578 (Digital transformation of health and social care: Welfare technology acceptance and knowledge among current and future healthcare and social care professionals) and P5-0399 (Internet research), funded by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency, and project V5-2275 (Digital inequalities and older adults in Slovenia: An evaluation of the measures implemented under the Digital Inclusion Promotion Act), funded by Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency and Ministry of Digital Transformation