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Factors Influencing the Perceived Effectiveness of COVID-19 Risk Assessment Mobile Application “MorChana” in Thailand: UTAUT2 Approach
COVID-19 contact-tracing mobile applications have been some of the most important tools during the COVID-19 pandemic. One preventive measure that has been incorporated to help reduce the virus spread is the strict implementation of utilizing a COVID-19 tracing application, such as the MorChana mobil...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9102722/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35565040 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095643 |
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author | Yuduang, Nattakit Ong, Ardvin Kester S. Prasetyo, Yogi Tri Chuenyindee, Thanatorn Kusonwattana, Poonyawat Limpasart, Waranya Sittiwatethanasiri, Thaninrat Gumasing, Ma. Janice J. German, Josephine D. Nadlifatin, Reny |
author_facet | Yuduang, Nattakit Ong, Ardvin Kester S. Prasetyo, Yogi Tri Chuenyindee, Thanatorn Kusonwattana, Poonyawat Limpasart, Waranya Sittiwatethanasiri, Thaninrat Gumasing, Ma. Janice J. German, Josephine D. Nadlifatin, Reny |
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description | COVID-19 contact-tracing mobile applications have been some of the most important tools during the COVID-19 pandemic. One preventive measure that has been incorporated to help reduce the virus spread is the strict implementation of utilizing a COVID-19 tracing application, such as the MorChana mobile application of Thailand. This study aimed to evaluate the factors affecting the actual usage of the MorChana mobile application. Through the integration of Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) and Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2), latent variables such as performance expectancy (PE), effort expectancy (EE), social influence (SI), facilitating conditions (FC), hedonic motivation (HM), habit (HB), perceived risk (PCR), self-efficacy (SEF), privacy (PR), trust (TR), and understanding COVID-19 (U) were considered to measure the intention to use MorChana (IU) and the actual usage (AU) of the mobile application. This study considered 907 anonymous participants who voluntarily answered an online self-administered survey collected via convenience sampling. The results show that IU presented the highest significant effect on AU, followed by HB, HM, PR, FC, U, SEF, PE, EE, TR, and SI. This is evident due to the strict implementation of using mobile applications upon entering any area of the vicinity. Moreover, PCR was not seen to be a significant latent factor affecting AU. This study is the first to have evaluated mobile contact tracing in Thailand. The integrated framework can be applied and extended to determine factors affecting COVID-19 tracing applications in other countries. Moreover, the findings of this study could be applied to other health-related mobile applications worldwide. |
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spelling | pubmed-91027222022-05-14 Factors Influencing the Perceived Effectiveness of COVID-19 Risk Assessment Mobile Application “MorChana” in Thailand: UTAUT2 Approach Yuduang, Nattakit Ong, Ardvin Kester S. Prasetyo, Yogi Tri Chuenyindee, Thanatorn Kusonwattana, Poonyawat Limpasart, Waranya Sittiwatethanasiri, Thaninrat Gumasing, Ma. Janice J. German, Josephine D. Nadlifatin, Reny Int J Environ Res Public Health Article COVID-19 contact-tracing mobile applications have been some of the most important tools during the COVID-19 pandemic. One preventive measure that has been incorporated to help reduce the virus spread is the strict implementation of utilizing a COVID-19 tracing application, such as the MorChana mobile application of Thailand. This study aimed to evaluate the factors affecting the actual usage of the MorChana mobile application. Through the integration of Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) and Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2), latent variables such as performance expectancy (PE), effort expectancy (EE), social influence (SI), facilitating conditions (FC), hedonic motivation (HM), habit (HB), perceived risk (PCR), self-efficacy (SEF), privacy (PR), trust (TR), and understanding COVID-19 (U) were considered to measure the intention to use MorChana (IU) and the actual usage (AU) of the mobile application. This study considered 907 anonymous participants who voluntarily answered an online self-administered survey collected via convenience sampling. The results show that IU presented the highest significant effect on AU, followed by HB, HM, PR, FC, U, SEF, PE, EE, TR, and SI. This is evident due to the strict implementation of using mobile applications upon entering any area of the vicinity. Moreover, PCR was not seen to be a significant latent factor affecting AU. This study is the first to have evaluated mobile contact tracing in Thailand. The integrated framework can be applied and extended to determine factors affecting COVID-19 tracing applications in other countries. Moreover, the findings of this study could be applied to other health-related mobile applications worldwide. MDPI 2022-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9102722/ /pubmed/35565040 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095643 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Yuduang, Nattakit Ong, Ardvin Kester S. Prasetyo, Yogi Tri Chuenyindee, Thanatorn Kusonwattana, Poonyawat Limpasart, Waranya Sittiwatethanasiri, Thaninrat Gumasing, Ma. Janice J. German, Josephine D. Nadlifatin, Reny Factors Influencing the Perceived Effectiveness of COVID-19 Risk Assessment Mobile Application “MorChana” in Thailand: UTAUT2 Approach |
title | Factors Influencing the Perceived Effectiveness of COVID-19 Risk Assessment Mobile Application “MorChana” in Thailand: UTAUT2 Approach |
title_full | Factors Influencing the Perceived Effectiveness of COVID-19 Risk Assessment Mobile Application “MorChana” in Thailand: UTAUT2 Approach |
title_fullStr | Factors Influencing the Perceived Effectiveness of COVID-19 Risk Assessment Mobile Application “MorChana” in Thailand: UTAUT2 Approach |
title_full_unstemmed | Factors Influencing the Perceived Effectiveness of COVID-19 Risk Assessment Mobile Application “MorChana” in Thailand: UTAUT2 Approach |
title_short | Factors Influencing the Perceived Effectiveness of COVID-19 Risk Assessment Mobile Application “MorChana” in Thailand: UTAUT2 Approach |
title_sort | factors influencing the perceived effectiveness of covid-19 risk assessment mobile application “morchana” in thailand: utaut2 approach |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9102722/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35565040 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095643 |
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