Dery Samuel, Vroom Frances da-Costa, Godi Anthony, Afagbedzi Seth, Dwomoh Duah
Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana.
Ghana Med J. 2016 Sep;50(3):180-188.
Studies have shown that ICT adoption contributes to productivity and economic growth. It is therefore important that health workers have knowledge in ICT to ensure adoption and uptake of ICT tools to enable efficient health delivery.
To determine the knowledge and use of ICT among students of the College of Health Sciences at the University of Ghana.
This was a cross-sectional study conducted among students in all the five Schools of the College of Health Sciences at the University of Ghana. A total of 773 students were sampled from the Schools. Sampling proportionate to size was then used to determine the sample sizes required for each school, academic programme and level of programme. Simple random sampling was subsequently used to select students from each stratum.
Computer knowledge was high among students at almost 99%. About 83% owned computers (p < 0.001) and self-rated computer knowledge was also 87 % (p <0.001). Usage was mostly for studying at 93% (p< 0.001).
This study shows students have adequate knowledge and use of computers. It brings about an opportunity to introduce ICT in healthcare delivery to them. This will ensure their adequate preparedness to embrace new ways of delivering care to improve service delivery.
Africa Build Project, Grant Number: FP7-266474.
研究表明，采用信息通信技术有助于提高生产力和促进经济增长。因此，卫生工作者掌握信息通信技术知识对于确保采用和使用信息通信技术工具以实现高效医疗服务至关重要。
确定加纳大学健康科学学院学生对信息通信技术的知识掌握情况和使用情况。
这是一项对加纳大学健康科学学院所有五个学院的学生进行的横断面研究。从各学院共抽取了773名学生作为样本。然后采用按规模成比例抽样的方法来确定每个学院、学术项目和项目层次所需的样本量。随后采用简单随机抽样从每个层次中选取学生。
学生的计算机知识掌握程度很高，几乎达到99%。约83%的学生拥有计算机（p<0.001），自我评定的计算机知识掌握程度也为87%（p<0.001）。计算机的使用主要是用于学习，占93%（p<0.001）。
本研究表明学生对计算机有足够的知识掌握和使用能力。这为向他们介绍医疗服务中的信息通信技术带来了契机。这将确保他们有足够的准备来接受新的护理方式，以改善服务提供。
非洲建设项目，资助编号：FP7 - 266474。
