Digital technology acceptance in telehealth services among healthcare professionals in Türkiye: Testing an extended UTAUT model in a mixed methods study - Summary - MDSpire
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Healthcare Professionals’ Adoption of Telehealth Technology in Türkiye: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of an Extended UTAUT Model

  • By

  • Harun Kırılmaz

  • Mehmet Nurullah Kurutkan

  • İsmail Şimşir

  • Ceyda Ataç

  • Aziz Öğütlü

  • Serdar Değirmenci

  • Birsel Esra Biçer

  • October 16, 2026

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Objective:

To examine factors associated with healthcare professionals’ adoption and use of telehealth technologies in Türkiye using an extended UTAUT framework and mixed methods.

Approach:
  • Framework: The study extends UTAUT with perceived data privacy, trust, perceived organisational support, and techno-eustress.
  • Design: A convergent mixed-methods design prioritizes quantitative analysis and embeds thematic analysis of open-ended responses from the same participants.
  • Integration: A joint display is used to examine convergence, expansion, and inconsistency between quantitative and qualitative findings.
Interpretation:

The supplied context describes the study rationale, framework, and methods but does not provide study results.

Limitations:
  • The provided article context ends during the conceptual framework and contains no results or study-specific limitations.
Conclusion:

The study is designed to assess technology acceptance alongside clinicians’ reported perceptions and concerns.

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