Table 2.

Expected differences and correlations between sociodemographic variables and attitudes, expectations, and ethical acceptability regarding SAHRs among employees and patients

Employee categories	Expected results	Measuring tool
Age	Younger employees are more open to the idea of implementing an SAHR into nursing care.	TSES and EAS Questionnaires (electronic form)
Gender	No expected difference in these groups.
Education	We expect that employees with higher levels of education will be more open to the idea of implementing an SAHR into nursing care.
Occupation	Outcome uncertain.
Inpatient categories	Expected results	Measuring tool
Age	Younger patients are more open to the idea of implementing an SAHR into nursing care.	TSES and NARS Questionnaires (electronic form)
Gender	No expected difference in the two groups.
Education	We expect that patients with higher levels of education will be more open to the idea of implementing an SAHR into nursing care.

EAS, Ethical Acceptability Scale; NARS, Negative Attitudes towards Robots Scale; SAHR, socially assistive humanoid robots; TSES, Technology-Specific Expectation Scale.