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?)