Powell Carol A, Case-Smith Jane
John A. Prior Health Sciences Library, Ohio State University, 376 West 10th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
J Med Libr Assoc. 2003 Oct;91(4):468-77.
The purpose of this study is to assess whether recent graduates of the Ohio State University's Occupational Therapy division are applying information-seeking skills they learned as undergraduates, and to seek their advice on ways to improve information-literacy instruction for current and future occupational therapy students.
A survey was sent to a sample of graduates from 1995-2000. The results were entered into an SPSS database, and descriptive and inferential results were calculated to determine the information-seeking patterns of these recent graduates.
A majority of the occupational therapy graduates who responded to the survey prefer to use information resources that are readily available to them, such as advice from their colleagues or supervisors (79%) and the Internet (69%), rather than the evidence available in the journal literature. Twenty-six percent (26%) of the graduates have searched MEDLINE or CINAHL at least once since they graduated. Formal library instruction sessions were considered useful by 42% of the graduates, and 22% of the graduates found informal contacts with librarians to be useful.
Librarians and occupational therapy faculty must intensify their efforts to convey the importance of applying research information to patient care and inform students of ways to access this information after they graduate. In addition to teaching searching skills for MEDLINE and CINAHL, they must provide instruction on how to assess the quality of information they find on the Internet. Other findings suggest that occupational therapy practitioners need access to information systems in the clinical setting that synthesize the research in a way that is readily applicable to patient-care issues.
本研究旨在评估俄亥俄州立大学职业治疗专业的近期毕业生是否在运用他们本科所学的信息检索技能，并就如何改进当前及未来职业治疗专业学生的信息素养教学征求他们的意见。
向1995年至2000年毕业的学生样本发放了调查问卷。结果录入SPSS数据库，并计算描述性和推断性结果，以确定这些近期毕业生的信息检索模式。
参与调查的大多数职业治疗专业毕业生更喜欢使用随手可得的信息资源，比如同事或上级的建议（79%）和互联网（69%），而非期刊文献中的证据。26%的毕业生自毕业以来至少检索过一次MEDLINE或CINAHL。42%的毕业生认为正式的图书馆教学课程有用，22%的毕业生觉得与图书馆员的非正式接触有用。
图书馆员和职业治疗专业教师必须加大力度，传达将研究信息应用于患者护理的重要性，并告知学生毕业后获取此类信息的途径。除了教授MEDLINE和CINAHL的检索技能外，他们还必须提供如何评估在互联网上找到的信息质量的指导。其他研究结果表明，职业治疗从业者需要在临床环境中使用信息系统，这些系统能够以易于应用于患者护理问题的方式整合研究成果。
