Ghalavand Hossein, Momtazan Mahboobeh, Jelvay Saeed, Khatamifar Seyed Hojjat, Heydarvand Zahra
Department of Medical Library and Information Science, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Abadan University of Medical Sciences, Abadan, Iran.
Department of Health Information Technology, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Abadan University of Medical Sciences, Abadan, Iran.
J Educ Health Promot. 2024 Mar 28;13:103. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_1698_22. eCollection 2024.
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic caused the closure of many face-to-face classes in Iran's universities of medical sciences, so e-learning was adopted as the alternative method. This study aims to examine the medical students' perspectives on e-learning continuance intention.
In this quantitative study, the population included 1,453 students and the statistical sample size was determined to be 305 students using the Cochran formula. The participants were selected using stratified sampling method based on the field of study and the data were collected by e-learning evaluation questionnaire. The data were analyzed using SPSS 26.0 in addition to descriptive statistics.
The results showed the mean perceived autonomy, perceived competence, and communication in e-learning, intrinsic motivation, information quality, e-learning applicability and students' satisfaction with e-learning courses were 2.61, 2.81, 2.91, 3.03, 2.98, 2.92, and 3.31, respectively. There was no significant correlation between the competence and applicability, user satisfaction and e-learning continuance intention. Moreover, e-learning continuance intention had the highest correlation with students' satisfaction (0.787) and information applicability (0.784), respectively.
Medical students had a tendency to continue e-learning, even after controlling the COVID-19 outbreak, and health education policymakers can be of use in this opportunity to developing educational services.
冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行导致伊朗医科大学的许多面对面课程停课，因此采用了电子学习作为替代方法。本研究旨在考察医学生对电子学习持续意愿的看法。
在这项定量研究中，总体包括1453名学生，使用 Cochr an公式确定统计样本量为305名学生。参与者采用分层抽样方法，根据研究领域进行选择，并通过电子学习评估问卷收集数据。除描述性统计外，还使用SPSS 26.0对数据进行分析。
结果显示，电子学习中感知到的自主性、能力、沟通、内在动机、信息质量、电子学习适用性以及学生对电子学习课程的满意度的平均值分别为2.61、2.81、2.91、3.03、2.98、2.92和3.31。能力与适用性、用户满意度与电子学习持续意愿之间无显著相关性。此外，电子学习持续意愿分别与学生满意度（0.787）和信息适用性（0.784）的相关性最高。
即使在控制了COVID-19疫情之后，医学生仍倾向于继续电子学习，健康教育政策制定者可以利用这个机会发展教育服务。
