Electronic Health-Information Resource Utilization and Its Associated Factors among Health Professionals in Amhara Regional State Teaching Hospitals, Ethiopia

Information-seeking behavior on sexually transmitted infections and its associated factors among university students in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study

“…Similarly, another study reported that Participants with access to STI information were considerably more likely to be aware of STI prevention mechanisms than those with limited access to STI information [ 15 ]. This result is also supported by a previous study conducted in Ethiopia in which respondents who had access to the internet were 1.97 times more likely to use EHIRs than those who did not [ 31 ]. The possible explanation for this could be that most students preferred the internet as a primary STI information source as discussed above in this study.…”

“…That is respondents who had high digital literacy levels were 5.7 times more likely to seek STI information when compared with those who had low digital literacy levels. This finding is supported by a study conducted in Ethiopia which stated that When compared to those with low computer literacy, those with good computer literacy were 3.12 times more likely to use electronic health information resources to seek health information [ 31 ].…”

Digital Health Competencies Among Health Care Professionals: Systematic Review

“…A total of 1304 studies were identified from literature searches, of which 26 met the inclusion criteria (Figure 1). The majority were cross-sectional studies, of which 11 [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] were considered prevalence data studies, and 13 [35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47] as analytical cross-sectional studies (Table 1). Among the remaining ones, 2 were experimental studies [48,49].…”

“…In total, 5 studies were conducted in the United States of America [25,30,38,40,41], while the others were performed in different European countries (eg, Germany [34,35] and Finland [25,26]), and in low-income countries (eg, Malawi [48] and Uganda [43]). In terms of the setting, 9 studies [32,33,36,37,[43][44][45][46]49] were conducted in hospitals. By contrast, the others were performed in mixed settings (eg, acute care [26], local health departments [25], and community [48]).…”

“…A total of 8 studies [26,32,36,38,41,42,47,49] involved nurses and 7 [25,27,28,33,39,44,45] covered health care professionals, while the others involved specific roles (eg, psychiatrists [40], pharmacists [31], maternal and child professionals [30]; Tables 1 and 2). The sample size was variable across the studies, ranging from 36 [30] to 5209 participants [39] with a variable age range from 20 [36] to 68 years [27].…”