Individual innovativeness features of family health personnels and their attitudes towards technology.

Abstract

To investigate family health personnel's innovativeness features and their attitude towards technology. The cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted from April to June, 2017, at Family Health Centres located in two cities in eastern Turkey. It comprised family health personnel working with the two centres. Data was collected using socio-demographic form, Individual Innovativeness Scale, and the Attitudes towards Technology Scale. SPSS 23.0 version was used for data analysis. There were 137 subjects, all (100%) females, with a mean age of 28.70 }6.42 years (range: 18-48 years). Individual Innovativeness Scale total mean score was 42.62 }9.46. Overall, 89(65%) subjects were Traditionalists, 40(29.2%) were Late Majority, 6(4.4%) Early Majority, and 2(1.5%) were Early Adopters. Attitudes towards Technology Scale total mean score was 130.85 } 17.30. . Family health personnel had positive attitudes towards technology, but majority of them were Traditionalists.