Motivating Healthcare Workers with Mobile Learning Applications

Abstract

This study investigated the intention to use a mobile e-learning application to stay up-to-date with current healthcare knowledge in two hospitals in rural Egypt. Since healthcare knowledge keeps changing, it is important for healthcare workers to stay up-to-date for the safety of healthcare workers and patients. This study looked at the validation of a process model to look at the variables that influence the intention to use a mobile learning application. Furthermore, this study tried to motivate healthcare workers to intend to use a mobile e-learning application in the future by hanging up posters that uses several Behaviour Change techniques. A regression analysis was performed and gave insight in the effects of the variables on the dependent variable of the intention to use a mobile learning application. Through a pre-measure and a post-measure in the two hospitals, the experimental group (with posters) and the control group (without posters) were compared to see if there was a significant effect. The results from the regression analysis showed that two variables had a significant effect on the intention to use a mobile learning application: colleague use and urgency. The results from the ANOVA analysis showed that the intervention with the poster did not have a significant effect on the intention to use a mobile e-learning application in the intervention group compared to the non-intervention group. Keywords: mobile e-learning application, behaviour change, healthcare