Enhancing Nurse-Robot Engagement: Two-Wave Survey Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Robots are introduced into health care contexts to assist health care professionals. However, we do not know how the benefits and maintenance of robots influence nurse-robot engagement.

Objective

This study aimed to examine how the benefits and maintenance of robots and nurses' personal innovativeness impact nurses' attitudes to robots and nurse-robot engagement.

Methods

Our study adopted a 2-wave follow-up design. We surveyed 358 registered nurses in operating rooms in a large-scale medical center in Taiwan. The first-wave data were collected from October to November 2019. The second-wave data were collected from December 2019 to February 2020. In total, 344 nurses participated in the first wave. We used telephone to follow up with them and successfully fo

SUBMITTER: Liao GY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9893885 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature