Department of Health Informatics, Institute of Public Health, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia.
BMC Health Serv Res. 2013 Dec 27;13:534. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-534.
Universal access to information for health professionals is a need to achieve "health for all strategy." A large proportion of the population including health professionals have limited access to health information in resource limited countries. The aim of this study is to assess information needs among Ethiopian health professionals.
A cross sectional quantitative study design complemented with qualitative method was conducted among 350 health care workers in February 26-June 5/2012. Pretested self-administered questionnaire and observation checklist were used to collect data on different variables. Data entry and data analysis were done using Epi-Info version 3.5.1 and by SPSS version19, respectively. Descriptive statistics and multivariate regression analyses were applied to describe study objectives and identify the determinants of information seeking behaviours respectively. Odds ratio with 95% CI was used to assess the association between a factor and an outcome variable.
The majority of the respondents acknowledged the need of health information to their routine activities. About 54.0% of respondents lacked access to health information. Only 42.8% of respondents have access to internet sources. Important barriers to access information were geographical, organizational, personal, economic, educational status and time. About 58.0% of the respondents accessed information by referring their hard copies and asking senior staff. Age, sex, income, computer literacy and access, patient size, work experience and working site were significantly associated with information needs and seeking behaviour.
The health information seeking behaviour of health professional was significant. The health facilities had neither information center such as library, nor Internet facilities. Conducting training on managing health information, accessing computer and improving infrastructures are important interventions to facilitate evidence based decisions.
卫生专业人员普遍获取信息是实现“人人享有健康战略”的需要。包括卫生专业人员在内的很大一部分人在资源有限的国家中，获取健康信息的机会有限。本研究旨在评估埃塞俄比亚卫生专业人员的信息需求。
2012 年 2 月 26 日至 6 月 5 日，采用横断面定量研究设计，并辅以定性方法，对 350 名医护人员进行了研究。使用经过预测试的自我管理问卷和观察检查表收集有关不同变量的数据。使用 Epi-Info 版本 3.5.1 和 SPSS 版本 19 分别进行数据录入和数据分析。采用描述性统计和多变量回归分析来描述研究目标，并确定信息寻求行为的决定因素。应用比值比（95%置信区间）评估因素与结果变量之间的关联。
大多数受访者承认需要健康信息来支持其日常活动。约 54.0%的受访者无法获取健康信息。只有 42.8%的受访者可以访问互联网资源。获取信息的重要障碍包括地理位置、组织、个人、经济、教育状况和时间。约 58.0%的受访者通过查阅硬拷贝和询问高级员工来获取信息。年龄、性别、收入、计算机素养和访问情况、患者人数、工作经验和工作地点与信息需求和寻求行为显著相关。
卫生专业人员的信息寻求行为具有重要意义。卫生机构既没有信息中心（如图书馆），也没有互联网设施。开展管理健康信息、访问计算机和改善基础设施方面的培训是促进循证决策的重要干预措施。
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