Investigating the Moderating Effects of Self-Efficacy, Age and Gender in the Context of Nursing Mobile Decision Support Systems Adoption: A Developing Country Perspective

Health professionals are increasingly using and relying on mobile applications to support their decisions in Jordan. Nursing staff have the opportunity to use a wide variety of already existed mobile applications to support their tasks when providing health services to both inpatients and outpatients. This study investigated the factors that affect mobile applications' adoption by nursing staff to support their health decision making. The proposed factors are perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, subjective norms, job relevance, and perceived external control. In addition, this study intended to investigate the moderating influence of, age, gender, and self-efficacy. The proposed model was tested by collecting data 241 nursing staff in three public and private hospitals in Jordan. Results show that perceived usefulness and perceived ease are the most significant factors that influence the individual?s behavioral intention to use and adopt the mobile application in their decision support processes.