Department of Health Information Technology, Khomein University of Medical Sciences, Khomein, Iran.
Social Determinants of Health Research Center, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran.
J Med Internet Res. 2021 Dec 7;23(12):e24643. doi: 10.2196/24643.
Today, academic social network sites' role in improving the quality of education and how investigators conduct their research has become more critical.
This study aimed to investigate Iranian health researchers' requirements for academic social network sites from a low-income country perspective.
This qualitative study with a phenomenological approach was done in 2020. In this study, 23 researchers in the health system were selected by purposive sampling. Semistructured interviews were used to collect data. Data were analyzed by MaxQDA-10 software and the content analysis method.
We identified 2 categories of functional and technical characteristics in the study participants' expectations. Functional characteristics included facilitating communication and team activities, managing scientific publications, enhancing the process of conducting research, being informative, and sharing and trading laboratory materials and equipment. Technical characteristics of an academic social network include user management capabilities, high security and privacy, being user-friendly, and other technical features.
Health researchers emphasized 2 functional and technical characteristics required to meet academic social network sites' expectations.
如今，学术社交网站在提高教育质量和研究人员开展研究方面的作用变得更加重要。
本研究旨在从低收入国家的角度调查伊朗卫生研究人员对学术社交网站的需求。
这是一项 2020 年进行的定性研究，采用现象学方法。在这项研究中，通过目的性抽样选择了 23 名卫生系统的研究人员。采用半结构式访谈收集数据。使用 MaxQDA-10 软件和内容分析法对数据进行分析。
我们在研究参与者的期望中确定了 2 类功能和技术特征。功能特征包括促进沟通和团队活动、管理科学出版物、加强研究过程、提供信息以及共享和交易实验室材料和设备。学术社交网络的技术特征包括用户管理能力、高安全性和隐私性、用户友好性以及其他技术特征。
卫生研究人员强调了满足学术社交网站期望所需的 2 个功能和技术特征。
