Print Email Facebook Twitter Renal transplant patient acceptance of a self-management support system Title Renal transplant patient acceptance of a self-management support system Author Wang, W. (TU Delft Interactive Intelligence; TNO) van Lint, Celine L. (Leiden University Medical Center) Brinkman, W.P. (TU Delft Interactive Intelligence) Rövekamp, Ton J.M. (TNO) van Dijk, Sandra (Leiden University Medical Center) van der Boog, Paul J.M. (Leiden University Medical Center) Neerincx, M.A. (TU Delft Interactive Intelligence; TNO) Date 2017 Abstract BackgroundSelf-management support systems (SMSS) have been proposed for renal transplant patients to increase their autonomy and reduce the number of hospital visits. For the design and implementation of such systems, it is important to understand factors influencing patients’ acceptance of a SMSS. This paper aims to identify these key factors.MethodsFrom literature, possible factors and related questionnaire items were identified. Afterwards, focus groups with experts and patients were conducted to adapt the items to the application domain. To investigate acceptance of a SMSS and the influencing factors, fifty renal transplant patients answered the questionnaire before and after using the SMSS for 4 months.ResultsAll the questionnaire constructs had a satisfactory or higher level of reliability. After using the SMSS for 4 months, trust and performance expectancy could explain part of the variation in behavioural intention of using the SMSS, but not beyond the explanation given by patients’ affect towards the system, which accounted for 26% of the variance.ConclusionsWe anticipate that in future caregivers implementing a SMSS will benefit from taking steps to improve patients’ affect as this was found to correlate with patients use intention.Trial registrationThe study was registered in ToetsingOnline, a registry held by the Dutch Central Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects. The registration number is NL33387.058.11, and the date of registration is 31st July 2012. Subject Technology acceptancee-healthRenal transplant patientSelf-managementSurvey To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8b35a6d0-001e-46ca-acc6-7c6874b6c5d6 DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-017-0456-y ISSN 1472-6947 Source BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 1-11 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2017 W. Wang, Celine L. van Lint, W.P. Brinkman, Ton J.M. Rövekamp, Sandra van Dijk, Paul J.M. van der Boog, M.A. Neerincx Files PDF 22298669.pdf 625.6 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:8b35a6d0-001e-46ca-acc6-7c6874b6c5d6/datastream/OBJ/view