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Table 1 Description of the CFIR and UTAUT frameworks

From: Educators’ perspectives of adopting virtual patient online learning tools to teach clinical reasoning in medical schools: a qualitative study

 

Domains

Construct

Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR)

Intervention characteristics

Intervention SourceEvidence Strength and Quality Relative Advantage Adaptability

Trialability Complexity Design Quality and Packaging Cost

 

Outer setting

Patient Needs and ResourcesCosmopolitanism Peer Pressure External Policy and Incentives

 

Inner setting

Structural CharacteristicsNetworks and Communications Culture Implementation Climate Readiness for Implementation

 

Characteristics of individuals

Knowledge and Beliefs About the InterventionSelf-Efficacy Individual Stage of Change Individual Identification With Organization Other Personal Attributes

 

Process of implementation

PlanningEngaging Executing Reflecting and Evaluating

The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT)

Performance expectancy

The degree to which an individual believes that using the system will help him or her to attain gains in job performance

 

Effort expectancy

The degree of ease associated with the use of the system

 

Social influence

The degree to which an individual perceives that important others believe he or she should use the new system

 

Facilitating conditions

The degree to which an individual believes that an or’anisation's and technical infrastructure exists to support the use of the system

  

Moderators: age, gender, experience and voluntariness of use