High School Students' Intentions Regarding Telemedicine for Mental Health Consultations

There has been an increase of mental health problems in adolescents; studies reveal that nearly one in five high school adolescents experience significant psychological pain, including sadness and anxiety. The study aims to examine how many high school students are influenced to use telemedicine for mental health consultations by perceived control beliefs, attitude readiness, and subjective norms. A maximum of 400 students were targeted based on the required sample size. Multistage random sampling was employed. Three public high schools, SMA Negeri 1, SMA Negeri 6, and SMA Negeri 15—were chosen by simple random selection, considering the percentage of students in each city, for a sample size of 218 students in Samarinda. A total of 146 students from two public high schools, SMA Negeri 2 and SMA Negeri 5, make up the sample size in Balikpapan. 36 pupils from the chosen school SMA Negeri 1, make up the sample size in Bontang. According to the results, 19.8% of respondents said they planned to use telemedicine for mental health, while 80.2% said they had no plans to use telemedicine for a variety of reasons, including preferring to speak with a therapist directly, which accounted for 47.0% of the responses. Recommendations from this research include interventions with respondents who are still hesitant, providing them with accurate information about the benefits of using telemedicine, the confidentiality of personal data, and the ease of access to services.