Prioritizing and Overcoming Barriers to e-Health Use among Elderly People: Implementation of the Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP)

Table 1

Potential barriers to e-health usage system for the aging population.

Main barriers	Sub-barriers	References
Attitudinal (AD-1)	Negative attitude towards using technology (AD-11)	[19–21, 24, 28]
	Lack of perceived usefulness (AD-12)
	Lack of perceived Ease of use (AD-13)
	Negative attitude towards life and life satisfaction (AD-14)
Socio-Environmental (SE-2)	Insufficient facilitating conditions (SE-21)	[23, 24, 30]
	Negative subjective norm (SE-22)
	Lack of social support (SE-23)
	Insufficient funds/Cost Tolerance (SE-24)
Health and Ability (HA-3)	Physical health (HA-31)	[2, 22] [5, 19, 20]
	Lack of psychological fitness (HA-32)
	Lack of cognitive ability (HE-33)
	Lack of self-efficacy (HA-34)
	Suffering from anxiety (HA-35)