Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to analyze the factors, namely service quality factors, system quality factors, and technology acceptance factors, that affect the decision to use an online medical consultation mobile application.
The sample population used in this study comprised 400 people living in Bangkok who had used at least one online medical consultation mobile application in the past 6 months. The instrument used to collect data was a questionnaire. The statistics used to analyze data were descriptive statistics of frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation along with inferential statistics: multiple regression analysis.
The study results showed that the dimensions of service quality factors included reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy affected the decision to use an online medical consultation mobile application whereas the tangibles dimension demonstrated no effect on the decision to use an online medical consultation mobile application. According to the system quality factors, the dimensions of ease of use, response times, and convenience of access all affected the decision to use an online medical consultation mobile application whereas the dimension of security and the reliability dimension, both demonstrated no effect on the decision to use an online medical consultation mobile application. Additionally, all dimensions of technology acceptance factors including performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and facilitating conditions, had effects on the decision to use an online medical consultation mobile application at a statistically significant level of .05.