FACTORS INFLUENCING THE ACTUAL USAGE OF E-HEALTH
A logit regression model (with robust standard error) was used to
examine which of the explanatory variables - the constructs and
demographic variables - encouraged individuals in actual usage of the
currently available e-health services. encouraged individuals to
actually use the e-health services currently available. However, some
demographic variables were not significant, so the final model did not
include location, education, age and income. Social
benefits, individual benefits, COVID-19 anxiety and positive
attitude also were not significant. The final model is shown below:
\begin{equation}
\text{Logit}\left(\text{Usage}\right)=\beta_{0}+\beta_{1}TechnologicalReadiness+\beta_{2}Fear+\ \beta_{3}Gender+\ \beta_{4}\text{Child}\nonumber \\
\end{equation}where Logit(Usage) is the dependent variable (”Have you
ever used an e-health service?” - Yes/No ). The results are shown in
Table 5.
Table 5. Regression results (dependent variable: Have you ever
used an e-health service?)