Acceptance of a Text Messaging Vaccination Reminder and Recall System in Malaysia's Healthcare Sector: Extending the Technology Acceptance Model.

ABSTRACT: Malaysian healthcare institutions still use ineffective paper-based vaccination systems to manage childhood immunization schedules. This may lead to missed appointments, incomplete vaccinations, and outbreaks of preventable diseases among infants. To address this issue, a text messaging vaccination reminder and recall system named Virtual Health Connect (VHC) was studied. VHC simplifies and accelerates immunization administration for nurses, which may result in improving the completion and timeliness of immunizations among infants. Considering the limited research on the acceptance of these systems in the healthcare sector, we examined the factors influencing nurses' attitudes and intentions to use VHC using the extended technology acceptance model (TAM). The novelty of the conceptual mode

SUBMITTER: Karkonasasi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10458098 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature