Bimerew Million, Chipps Jennifer
School of Nursing, Faculty of Community and Health Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
Health SA. 2022 Oct 20;27:2056. doi: 10.4102/hsag.v27i0.2056. eCollection 2022.
In primary healthcare, health information technology has the potential to facilitate the delivery of healthcare services by improving quality of care, efficiency and patient safety. However, little is known about the uptake and technology acceptance among primary healthcare nurses.
The aim of this study was to describe health information technology acceptance and use among primary healthcare nurses.
Primary healthcare centres in the Western Cape.
A quantitative descriptive survey was conducted with a sample of 160 nurses working in primary healthcare for more than 6 months, using a self-administered questionnaire based on the technology acceptance model constructs. Eighteen primary healthcare centres were randomly selected with a sample of 160 using nonprobability purposive sampling.
Ninety-three (58.1%) respondents completed the survey. Three-quarters of the respondents reported positive attitudes, positive perceptions of usefulness and ease of use towards the use of health information technology. Barriers of access and training were reported by 75%, with around half the respondents reporting poor computer and information accessing skills. Health information technology use was varied, with high ratings for seeking and using and low ratings of ability to use health information technology for patient administration and management. Health information technology use was predicted by perceptions of ease of use.
This research presents a mixed picture of acceptance of technology among primary healthcare nurses and highlights the lack of access to computers and Internet in these settings.
This study contributes to the field of technology acceptance among primary healthcare nurses.
在初级医疗保健中，健康信息技术有潜力通过提高护理质量、效率和患者安全来促进医疗服务的提供。然而，对于初级医疗保健护士对该技术的采用情况和技术接受度却知之甚少。
本研究的目的是描述初级医疗保健护士对健康信息技术的接受情况和使用情况。
西开普省的初级医疗保健中心。
采用基于技术接受模型构建的自填式问卷，对160名在初级医疗保健机构工作超过6个月的护士进行了定量描述性调查。通过非概率目的抽样从18个初级医疗保健中心随机抽取了160名样本。
93名（58.1%）受访者完成了调查。四分之三的受访者对使用健康信息技术持积极态度，认为其有用且易于使用。75%的受访者表示存在获取和培训方面的障碍，约一半的受访者报告计算机和信息获取技能较差。健康信息技术的使用情况各不相同，在信息查找和使用方面评分较高，而在将健康信息技术用于患者管理方面评分较低。对易用性的认知可预测健康信息技术的使用情况。
本研究呈现了初级医疗保健护士对技术接受情况的复杂图景，并突出了这些机构中计算机和互联网接入不足的问题。
本研究为初级医疗保健护士技术接受领域做出了贡献。
