Faculty of Medicine, Family Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Faculty of Medicine, Neurology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Int J Clin Pract. 2021 Jun;75(6):e14128. doi: 10.1111/ijcp.14128. Epub 2021 Mar 14.
Telehealth is delivering health care services remote from health-care facilities using telecommunications. Egypt is aiming for Universal Health Coverage; this increases the demand for telehealth in routine health services.
To measure the awareness of telehealth health care workers of primary health care units and to evaluate the effect of an orientation programme on primary health care workers' awareness and acceptance of the application of telehealth.
This was an intervention study amongst health care workers. A self-administrated valid questionnaire for health care workers was designed, the questionnaire consists of different domains of knowledge in addition to advantages, disadvantages, security and necessity perceptions. Each domain consists of Likert scale questions of 5 points. The questions were scored as the worst answer (1) and the best (5). A total of 109 questionnaires were filled by participants who spent at least 6 months in primary health care units. Then the health care workers attended an orientation programme and the questionnaire was re-filled once more. A total of 104 was recollected. Ethical issues were considered.
50.5% of the health care workers were aware of telehealth; 66.7% of health care workers with master's degree were aware of telehealth in comparison to 31.8% amongst those with a diploma, 64.3% of physicians were aware of telehealth, while 29.6 of nurses were aware [Correction added on 08 April 2021 after first online publication: '9.6%' has been amended to '29.6%' in the preceding sentence]. The score of knowledge and attitude increased from 130 ± 23.538 to 156.49 ± 18.456 after the educational programme.
Half of the health care workers were aware of telehealth; the orientation improved the Healthcare Workers' knowledge and attitude.
远程医疗使用电信技术在医疗设施之外提供医疗服务。埃及的目标是实现全民健康覆盖；这增加了远程医疗在常规医疗服务中的需求。
测量初级保健单位卫生保健工作者对远程医疗的认识，并评估定向方案对初级保健工作者对远程医疗应用的认识和接受程度的影响。
这是一项针对卫生保健工作者的干预研究。设计了一份针对卫生保健工作者的自我管理有效问卷，该问卷除了对优点、缺点、安全性和必要性的看法外，还包括不同的知识领域。每个领域都包含 5 分制的李克特量表问题。问题的评分从最差答案（1）到最好答案（5）。共有 109 份问卷由至少在初级保健单位工作 6 个月的参与者填写。然后，卫生保健工作者参加了一个定向方案，并再次填写了问卷。共收回 104 份。考虑了伦理问题。
50.5%的卫生保健工作者了解远程医疗；拥有硕士学位的卫生保健工作者中有 66.7%了解远程医疗，而拥有文凭的卫生保健工作者中只有 31.8%，64.3%的医生了解远程医疗，而 29.6%的护士了解远程医疗。知识和态度评分从 130 ± 23.538 增加到 156.49 ± 18.456，在教育计划之后。
一半的卫生保健工作者了解远程医疗；定向培训提高了卫生保健工作者的知识和态度。
