Do you wanna dance? Tales of trust and driving trust factors in robot medication counseling in the pharmacy context.

The sustainable implementation of socially assistive robots in a pharmacy setting requires that customers trust the robot. Our aim was to explore young adults' anticipations of and motives for trusting robot medication counseling in a high-stakes scenario. Through a co-creation approach, we co-designed a prototype application for the Furhat platform together with young adults.

Experiences of caring after religious disaffiliation: A qualitative study based on the DEW model.

Background And Aim: Leaving a religious community may occasionally lead to suffering in a human being's life and difficult existential life issues, such as loss of social relationships, identity and well-being. Only a few studies have been conducted on what kind of care and support human beings who are suffering need in this context. The aim of this study was to increase the understanding of what a human being perceives as caring after religious disaffiliation.

Social robots counselling in community pharmacies - Helping or harming? A qualitative study of pharmacists' views.

Background: Welfare technological solutions such as social robots attempt to meet the growing needs of the healthcare sector. Social robots may be able to respond to the shortage of pharmaceutical personnel at community pharmacies. However, there is a lack of previous studies regarding the use of social robots for medication counselling purposes in a pharmacy setting.

Humanoid robots in the care of older persons: A scoping review.

The aim was to examine how humanoid robots have been used in the care of older persons and identify possible benefits and challenges associated with such use from older persons' points of view. The study was a scoping review based on Arksey and O'Malley's methodological framework. To identify peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed literature, a systematic search of the PubMed, Cinahl and Google Scholar electronic databases was conducted for studies published between 2013 and 2019.