The design and development of “e-Vaccination” applications are not extensively researched
within developing economies, in part because of the difficulty in gaining access to government
officials and medical experts. Vaccination cards have been used to keep track of minors’
immunisation records in South Africa for over 30 years. The South African government is
moving towards the use of electronic systems for the storage of such information.
South Africa has a clearly defined electronic health strategy, which is to utilise information and
communications technologies in healthcare to inter alia, engage in medical research, promote
health education, monitoring of diseases and tracking public health. Supporting this strategy
means digitising current paper-based systems. The result would be information that can be
stored safely, backed up and analysed more easily than paper-based journals, documents
and vaccination cards.
The purpose of this research is to develop a better understanding of key stakeholders’
perceptions to the replacement of paper-based vaccination cards with an electronic system.
This is important because digital records can be considered as a more effective method of
storing vaccination data.
This study is quantitative in nature and primary data in the form of Likert scale questionnaires
were collected from 118 key stakeholders being nurses, doctors, parents and school
administration staff. The Likert scale questionnaire data was analysed using the following
statistical techniques: Cronbach Alpha Test, Chi-Square Test, Analysis of Variance Test and
Principle Component Analysis. The analysis provided a deeper understanding of the key
stakeholder’s perceptions to the use of e-Vaccination applications.
e-Vaccination applications are affected by user friendliness of the application, the graphical
design of the application, practicality of the application, user experience of the application as
well as the usability of the application.
The practical implications of this research on e-Vaccination applications is that designers,
developers, policymakers and government have a deeper understanding of nurses, doctors,
parents and school administration staff perceptions to the use of e-Vaccination. / School of Computing
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/27652 |
| Date | 09 July 2021 |
| Creators | Moonsamy, Wesley |
| Contributors | Singh, Shawren |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
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