Veikkolainen Paula, Tuovinen Timo, Jarva Erika, Tuomikoski Anna-Maria, Männistö Merja, Pääkkönen Jarmo, Pihlajasalo Teemu, Reponen Jarmo
FinnTelemedicum, Research Unit of Medical Imaging, Physics and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Finland.
FinnTelemedicum, Research Unit of Medical Imaging, Physics and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Finland; Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
Int J Med Inform. 2023 Jan;169:104912. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2022.104912. Epub 2022 Nov 2.
Digitalisation is rapidly changing health care processes and the health care sector, thus increasing the need to improve the digital competence of future health care professionals.
The aim of this study was to describe the attitudes of medical and nursing students towards digital health based on self-evaluation as well as to compare the differences in perceptions between the two student groups.
A cross-sectional study was conducted as an online survey using the Webropol in April 2021 at the University of Oulu and Oulu University of Applied Sciences in Finland. The survey questionnaire consisted of seven background questions and 16 statements on a five-point Likert scale (fully disagree to fully agree) to survey student attitudes towards eHealth, and their digital capabilities.
A total of 250 medical and nursing students were invited to participate in the study and 170 of them took the survey (response rate 68 %). Of those answered, 38 % (n = 64) were nursing and 32 % (n = 106) medical students. Students generally had a positive attitude towards eHealth and health care digitalisation. The differences in perceptions and preparedness between medical and nursing students were surprisingly small in the two student groups. There was a statistically significant difference between the two groups in three out of 16 statements: these were related to changes in the roles of health care professionals and patients as well as the students' knowledge of information contained in the national patient portal.
The results of this study provide a good starting point for further harmonisation of the curriculum for both health professional groups regarding the teaching of eHealth and telemedicine.
数字化正在迅速改变医疗保健流程和医疗保健行业，因此越来越需要提高未来医疗保健专业人员的数字能力。
本研究的目的是基于自我评估描述医学和护理专业学生对数字健康的态度，并比较两组学生在认知上的差异。
2021年4月，在芬兰奥卢大学和奥卢应用科学大学进行了一项横断面研究，采用Webropol进行在线调查。调查问卷包括七个背景问题和16条关于五点李克特量表（完全不同意到完全同意）的陈述，以调查学生对电子健康及其数字能力的态度。
共有250名医学和护理专业学生被邀请参加该研究，其中170人参与了调查（回复率68%）。在回答的学生中，38%（n = 64）是护理专业学生，32%（n = 106）是医学专业学生。学生们总体上对电子健康和医疗保健数字化持积极态度。在这两组学生中，医学和护理专业学生在认知和准备方面的差异小得出奇。在16条陈述中的3条上，两组之间存在统计学上的显著差异：这些与医疗保健专业人员和患者角色的变化以及学生对国家患者门户网站中所含信息的了解有关。
本研究结果为进一步统一两个健康专业群体在电子健康和远程医疗教学方面的课程提供了一个良好的起点。
