Patient Acceptance of Educational Contents in Asma Droid for Learning Asthma Self-Management

Abstract

Education on proper asthma self-management is important in the management of asthma. It is a strategy to improve the quality of life and clinical outcomes of asthmatics. In this modern era, almost all digital contents, including health promotion and patient education, can be simply carried out through a smartphone app. Unfortunately, not all patients accept this approach. A well-validated method, known as the Technology Acceptance Model, was adopted to ensure the acceptance of the contents by users, in this case, patients. This study aimed to determine the perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use in the patient acceptance of educational contents of an asthma self-management app, known as AsmaDroid. The design of this study was an explanatory model with a quantitative approach. The respondents were asthmatics with the following criteria: aged 19–22 years old, having a history of asthma, and having installed and used the AsmaDroid app for a month. The purposive sampling approach was adopted with 100 study respondents, and the instruments of the study were AsmaDroid and a TAM questionnaire. Additionally, a descriptive statistic was also adopted with the use of multiple linear regression to prove the study hypothesis. The results of this study showed that both perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use had a positive and significant effect on the user or patient acceptance, with a significant value of 0.00 and 0.02, respectively. This study concluded that asthma educational contents in AsmaDroid provided benefits and convenience for users. Therefore, the educational contents were accepted as an alternative medium to learn asthma self-management.