Expectations and Perceptions of Healthcare Professionals for Robot Deployment in Hospital Environments During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Several challenges to guarantee medical care have been exposed during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Although the literature has shown some robotics applications to overcome the potential hazards and risks in hospital environments, the implementation of those developments is limited, and few studies...
- Autores:
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Sierra Marín, Sergio D.
Gomez Vargas, Daniel
Céspedes, Nathalia
Múnera, Marcela
Roberti, Flavio
Barria, Patricio
Ramamoorthy, Subramanian
Becker, Marcelo
Carelli, Ricardo
Cifuentes, Carlos A
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2021
- Institución:
- Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio Institucional ECI
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.escuelaing.edu.co:001/3243
- Acceso en línea:
- https://repositorio.escuelaing.edu.co/handle/001/3243
https://repositorio.escuelaing.edu.co/
- Palabra clave:
- Tecnología médica
Medical technology
Teleatención (Medicina)
Telecare (Medicine)
Atención hospitalaria
Hospital care
Innovaciones en medicina
Medical innovations
Robotics
Healthcare professionals’ expectations
COVID-19
Hospital environments
Robot applications
UV robot
Telemedicine
Robótica
expectativas de los profesionales sanitarios
Entornos hospitalarios
Aplicaciones de robots
Robot UV
Telemedicina
- Rights
- closedAccess
- License
- http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_14cb
| Summary: | Several challenges to guarantee medical care have been exposed during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Although the literature has shown some robotics applications to overcome the potential hazards and risks in hospital environments, the implementation of those developments is limited, and few studies measure the perception and the acceptance of clinicians. This work presents the design and implementation of several perception questionnaires to assess healthcare provider’s level of acceptance and education toward robotics for COVID-19 control in clinic scenarios. Specifically, 41 healthcare professionals satisfactorily accomplished the surveys, exhibiting a low level of knowledge about robotics applications in this scenario. Likewise, the surveys revealed that the fear of being replaced by robots remains in the medical community. In the Colombian context, 82.9% of participants indicated a positive perception concerning the development and implementation of robotics in clinic environments. Finally, in general terms, the participants exhibited a positive attitude toward using robots and recommended them to be used in the current panorama. |
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