Socially assistive robots in health and social care: Acceptance and cultural factors. Results from an exploratory international online survey.
Irena PapadopoulosSteve WrightChristina KoulougliotiSheila AliRuna LazzarinoAngel Martín-GarcíaCristina Oter-QuintanaChristiana KoutaElena RousouKatalin PappRadka KrepinskaValérie TóthováMaria MalliarouParaskevi ApostolaraMalgorzata Lesinska-SawickaMałgorzata NagorskaMiroslava LiskovaLine NortvedtLise-Merete AlpersSylvia Biglete-PangilinanMa Florinda Oconer-RubianoWireeporn ChaisetsampunNutchanath WichitAkhtar Ebrahimi GhassemiEzzat JafarjalalAkile ZorbaAndrea Kuckert-WöstheinrichRabin MallaTomiko TodaÖzlem AkmanCandan OzturkTeresa PuvimanasingheAdrian E EstermanOrit Eldar-RegevSara NissimPublished in: Japan journal of nursing science : JJNS (2023)
Most respondents were positive about the benefits of SARs, and similar concerns about their use were expressed both by those who strongly accepted the idea that they had benefits and those who did not. Some evidence was found to suggest that cultural factors were related to rejecting the idea that SARs had benefits.