Table 1.

Linking UTAUT to the present study

UTAUT componentsDescriptionIn relation to the review article on telehealth
Performance expectancyFocuses on the user’s behavior in terms of the belief that a technology system can be used to perform normal face-to-face contact duties to their expectationsThe health-care practitioner making provision for telehealth and the patients having believe in the use of technology to access a particular service
Typically, a user may be internal user (health-care practitioner) or external user (patient)
Effort expectancyConverges the extent to which the technology is user friendly to the userThe telehealth service is user friendly to the potential patients who must use it
Facilitating conditionsFocuses on the infrastructure that may have an impact on the user’s actual use of technologyAdequate skills, quality internet connection are key external factors for the users to effectively use telehealth, whereas the believe and the willingness of an individual are internal factors for the user to use technology for health-care purposes
Social influenceFocuses on the failure of an individual to make a personal judgement but places their judgement from the general feeling that other people have regarding the use of a particular technologyPatients and health-care practitioners who make a judgement is influenced by other people’s perception on using technology for health-care services

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