Technological readiness is a general dimension indicating attitudes towards technology and smart devices, while fearmeasures the degree of techno­phobia. Positive attitude refers to the extent to which an individual is open to technological innovation and e-health in general [50].
We constructed the willingness to try variable to express the extent to which the individual considers it feasible to try the service if telediagnostics is available, while intention to use indicates the extent to which the individual considers it feasible to switch completely to telediagnostics.
Individual benefits and social benefits were used to measure how much individual- and social benefit the respondent expects to receive from e-health services. Satisfaction is the subjective evaluation of the services by those who have al­ready used e-health services, and COVID-19 anxiety expresses the extent to which e-health reduces an individual’s fear of infection or spread of disease. The variables also include the dummy variable usage of e-health,which mea­sures the awareness of e-health (based on the question ”Have you ever used e-health services?”) with an output of 0/1 (no/yes)).
The following hypotheses are formulated based on the constructs presented in Table 3: