Background
Methods
Results
Socio-demographic characteristics of the study subjects
Variables | Number (%) |
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Age:
| |
21-25 years | 32 (9.5%) |
26-30 years | 153 (45.1%) |
31-35 years | 96 (28.3%) |
36-40 years | 37 (10.9%) |
41-45 years | 19 (5.6%) |
>46 + years | 2 (0.6%) |
Sex:
| |
Male | 117 (34.5%) |
Female | 222 (65.5%) |
Professional category:
| |
General practitioner | 21 (6.2%) |
Health officer | 18 (5.3%) |
Medical lab. personnel | 38 (11.2%) |
Nurse | 151 (44.5%) |
Pharmacy personnel | 34 (10.0%) |
Mid wives | 27 (8.0%) |
Others | 50 (14.7%) |
Work experience:
| |
≤6 years | 185 (54.6%) |
>6 years | 154 (45.4%) |
Monthly income in Birr:
| |
500-1000 | 4 (1.2%) |
1001-1500 | 146 (43.1%) |
1501-2000 | 45 (13.3%) |
2001-2500 | 64 (18.9%) |
2501-3000 | 37 (10.9%) |
>3000 | 43 (12.7%) |
Family size:
| |
≤4 members | 258 (76.1%) |
>4 members | 81 (23.9%) |
Variable | Number (%) |
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Computer access:
| |
Yes: at home | 34 (10%) |
at office | 62 (18.3%) |
at both | 28 (8.3%) |
No: Do not know | 215 (63.4%) |
Computer use:
| |
Report writing | 1 (0.8%) |
Reading | 5 (4.0%) |
File keeping | 4 (3.2%) |
Internet use | 5 (4.0%) |
Reading, file keeping, internet use | 80 (64.5%) |
All | 29 (23.5%) |
Computer literacy(n = 339):
| |
Yes | 113 (33.3%) |
No | 226 (66.7%) |
Computer illiteracy reasons(n = 226):
| |
No time | 51 (22.6%) |
No access | 135(59.7%) |
Not interested | 2(0.9%) |
No time & no access | 38 (16.8%) |
Do you have other means of income (n = 339)
| |
Yes | 101(29.8%) |
No | 238(70.2% |
Time spent after regular work(n = 228):
| |
With my boy/girl friend | 65 (27.7%) |
Visiting my socials | 42 (17.7%) |
Through reading | 85 (35.7%) |
Church | 16 (6.7%) |
Recreational place | 15 (6.3%) |
Others | 15 (6.3%) |
Information needs of health professionals
Variable | Number (%) |
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Health information needs:
| |
Yes | 333 (97.3%) |
No | 9 (2.7%) |
Reasons for health information needs:
| |
Own needs | 87 (25.7%) |
Questions from patients | 21 (6.2%) |
Environmental competitions | 5 (1.4%) |
Emergency of new cases | 6 (1.7%) |
Own needs, questions from patients & new cases | 31 (9.1%) |
Own needs & questions from patients | 190 (56.0%) |
Problems encountered due to information limitation:
| |
Yes | 183 (54.0%) |
No | 156 (46.0%) |
Purposes to use internet:
| |
E-mail | 90 (62.0%) |
Patient care & drug information | 37 (25.5%) |
New findings | 13 (9.0%) |
Research & business | 5 (3.5%) |
Satisfaction on internet:
| |
Partially satisfied | 18 (12.4%) |
Not satisfied | 127 (87.6%) |
Problems encountered while searching:
| |
Poor internet connection | 80 (55.2%) |
High cost | 45 (31.0%) |
Poor searching skills | 20 (13.8%) |
Training time:
| |
Within the last 6 months | 78 (37.0%) |
Within the last3 months | 70 (33.2%) |
Within the last 12 months | 26 (12.3%) |
More than 12 months | 24 (11.4%) |
Do not remember the time | 13 (6.1%) |
Need for further training:
| |
Yes | 325 (96.0%) |
No | 14 (4.0%) |
Variables | Number (%) |
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HIRs accessed (n = 339):
| |
Formal HIRs (books, internet, trainings, etc.) | 315 (92.9%) |
Informal HIRs (key informants, colleagues, etc.) | 24 (7.1%) |
Library access at working area:
| |
Yes | 252 (74.3%) |
No | 87 (25.7%) |
Books, Journals, etc. accessibility at working place:
| |
Yes | 31 (9.1%) |
No | 308 (90.9%) |
Information sources preferred (n = 339):
| |
Formal HIRs | 335 (98.8%) |
Informal HIRs | 4 (1.2%) |
HIRs at home :
| |
Yes | 275 (81.1%) |
No | 64 (18.9%) |
Are HIRs at home use full?
| |
Yes | 214 (77.8%) |
No | 61 (22.2%) |
Training access:
| |
Yes | 211 (62.2%) |
No | 128 (37.8%) |
Internet access:
| |
Yes | 145 (42.8%) |
No | 194 (57.2%) |
Internet sources:
| |
Working area | 46 (31.7%) |
Internet café | 55 (38.0%) |
Home | 21 (14.5%) |
Either from two or three of above sources | 23 (15.8&) |
Mechanisms of solving information related problems:
| |
Consulting seniors | 57 (31.1%) |
Discussion with staffs | 58 (31.7%) |
Referring patients | 6 (3.3%) |
Consulting & discussion with staffs | 34 (18.6%) |
Discussion with staffs & refereeing patients | 1 (0.6%) |
Consulting & discussion with staffs & refereeing patients | 22 (12.0%) |
All | 5 (2.7%) |
Health information resources access and seeking behaviour
Internet access | |||||
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Variables | Yes (%) | No (%) | COR (95%CI) | AOR(95%CI) | |
Age:
| <30 years | 100 (29.5%) | 85 (25.1%) | 3.7[1.81,7.63]*
| 2,63[1.4,5.1] |
≥30 years | 14 (4.1%) | 44 (13.0%) | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
Sex:
| |||||
Male | 63 (18.6%) | 54 (15.9%) | 2[1.3,3.14]*
| 1.91[1.1,3.4] | |
Female | 82 (24.2%) | 140 (41.3%) | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
Educational category:
| |||||
MD | 20 (5.9%) | 1(0.3%) | 2[1.3,3.14] | 1.91[1.1,3.4] | |
Others | 125 (36.9%) | 193 (56.9%) | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
Working unit:
| |||||
OPD & inpatient | 32 (9.4%) | 33 (9.7%) | 1.38[0.80,2.4 | 1.31[0.64,2.66] | |
Others | 113 (33.3%) | 161 (47.5%) | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
Monthly income:
| |||||
<2000 | 58 (17.1%) | 137 (40.4%) | 0.3[0.18,0.44] | 0.38[0.22,0.68]*
| |
≥2000 | 87 (25.7%) | 57 (16.8%) | 3[0.18,0.44]*
| 2.0[1.1,3.87] | |
Working experience:
| |||||
≤6 years | 101(29.8%) | 84(24.8%) | 3[1.9,4.86]*
| 2.0[1.1,3.71] | |
>6 years | 44(13.0%) | 110(32.4%) | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
Family size | <4 | 117(34.5%) | 141(41.6%) | 1.6[0.91,2.73] | 0.77[0.39,1.5] |
≥4 | 28(8.3%) | 53(15.6%) | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
Computer access:
| |||||
Yes | 80(23.6%) | 42(24.4%) | 2[1.3,3.30] | 1.8[1.03,3.10] | |
No | 106(31.3%) | 103(30.4%) | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
Patient number per day:
| |||||
≤30 | 88(23.6%) | 44(13.0%) | 2[1.3,3.30] | 1.8[1.03,3.10] | |
>30 | 65(19.2%) | 150(44.2%) | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
Computer literacy:
| |||||
Yes | 72(21.2%) | 41(12.1%) | 3.7[2.23,6.1] | 3.93[2.26,6.82]*
| |
No | 73(21.5%) | 153(45.1%) | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
Facility:
| |||||
Hospital | 124(36.6%) | 134(39.5%) | 2.64[1.5,4.8]*
| 2,59[1.33,5.01] | |
Health centers | 21(6.2%) | 60(17.7%) | 1.0 | 1.0 |