Study protocol: a survey exploring patients' and healthcare professionals' expectations, attitudes and ethical acceptability regarding the integration of socially assistive humanoid robots in nursing.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Population ageing, the rise of chronic diseases and the emergence of new viruses are some of the factors that contribute to an increasing share of gross domestic product dedicated to health spending. COVID-19 has shown that nursing staff represents the critical part of hospitalisation. Technological developments in robotics and artificial intelligence can significantly reduce costs and lead to improvements in many hospital processes. The proposed study aims to assess expectations, attitudes and ethical acceptability regarding the integration of socially assistive humanoid robots into hospitalised care workflow from patients' and healthcare professionals' perspectives and to compare them with the results of similar studies.

Methods/design

The study is designed as

SUBMITTER: Mlakar I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8977461 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature