Pottas Dalenca, Mostert-Phipps Nicky
School of ICT, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013;192:501-4.
This paper explores citizen attitudes towards personal health records. The study was conducted in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. A cross-sectional design was used and structured questionnaires administered by data collectors. Most respondents (90%) believed it to be important to extremely important for their healthcare provider to have their complete medical records. Less than half of them (42%), however, believed that the healthcare provider did have their complete medical record available to them. Nevertheless, 69% do not keep a medical record as a way to address this concern. Most of them (84%) were not aware of the existence of electronic tools to capture a personal health record prior to participating in the survey. Concerns relating to the use of online PHRs were identified as privacy (58%), lack of time (27%) and a disinterest in computers (22%). It was found that the existence of a medical chronic condition is a strong predictor of keeping a medical record (albeit mostly in paper-based format).
本文探讨了公民对个人健康记录的态度。该研究在南非东开普省进行。采用横断面设计，由数据收集者发放结构化问卷。大多数受访者（90%）认为医疗服务提供者拥有其完整的病历对他们极其重要。然而，不到一半的受访者（42%）认为医疗服务提供者确实拥有他们的完整病历。尽管如此，69%的人没有通过保存病历的方式来解决这一问题。在参与调查之前，他们中的大多数人（84%）并不知道有电子工具可用于记录个人健康记录。与在线个人健康记录使用相关的担忧包括隐私问题（58%）、缺乏时间（27%）和对计算机不感兴趣（22%）。研究发现，患有慢性疾病是保存病历（尽管大多是纸质形式）的一个有力预测因素。
