Older Adults’ Perceptions of Supporting Factors of Trust in a Robot Care Provider

Table 1

Participant characteristics.

Factor	Measure	% of participants ()
Ethnicity	Black/African American; White/Caucasian; Others	29% (7); 67% (16); 4% (1)
Education	Less than high school graduate; High school graduate/GED; Some or in-progress college/associates degree; Bachelor’s degree (BA, BS); Master’s degree; Doctoral degree	8% (2); 17% (4); 71% (10); 13% (3); 13% (3); 8% (2)
General healt	“In general, would you say your health is…”	M = 2.38; SD = 1.06
Montreal cognitive assessmen		M = 23.05; SD = 4.01
Days assistance received each week		M = 6.05; SD = 1.53
Average length of caregiver sta		M = 2.00; SD = 1.05
Technology usag	“In the past year, how often have you used…”	M = 0.79; SD = 0.57
Self-efficacy for daily task	“How confident are you in performing…?”	M = 61.26; SD = 29.13

(a) 1 = poor, 2 = fair, 3 = good, 4 = very good, 5 = excellent; (b) score ≥ 26 = normal; (c) 1 = less than an hour, 2 = 1–3 hours, 3 = 4–6 hours, 4 = 6–12 hours, and 5 = 12–24 hours; (d) 0—not used; 1 = used once, 2 = used occasionally, and 3 = used frequently; (e) 1 = not at all confident and 10 = completely confident (summed across 10 questions; range is 10–100); one participant did not wish to answer.