To examine pediatric health care professionals’ acceptance of socially assistive robots (SARs), including factors associated with behavioral intention and professionals’ experiences and concerns about clinical use.
Approach:
Design: The study used a convergent parallel mixed methods design.
Quantitative component: It assessed associations between behavioral intention and performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, hedonic motivation, and trust.
Qualitative component: It explored health care professionals’ perspectives on SAR use in pediatric clinical practice; findings were integrated with the quantitative results.
Interpretation:
The study was designed to examine both established technology-acceptance factors and contextual or relational considerations, including trust, in pediatric SAR adoption.
Conclusion:
The provided context describes the study rationale and methods but does not include results or study limitations.
