Information Seeking by Nurses in the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria

Ajayi, N. A.

doi:10.1177/0266666905054506

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“…In line with this, our study found that the majority of the participants had used ICT facilities with reasonable experience as between 94 and 95% have used computer and the Internet for more than three years. Our study coincides with other studies [6][7][8][9][23][24][25][26][27][28] that reported good utilization of computer and the Internet. It however established improvement on studies [27] with moderate use and others [12,[29][30][31][32][33][34] with low utilization of computer and the Internet.…”

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ICT knowledge, Utilization and Perception among Healthcare Providers at National Hospital Abuja, Nigeria

Adeleke¹

2015

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Background: Healthcare system in Nigeria is moving towards digitalization especially in the management of patients' health information, with a view to harmonizing medical care practice for improved healthcare quality. Information and communication technology (ICT) has transformed the way people collaborate, identify potential collaborators or friends, communicate with each other, and identify information that is relevant to their practice. Rationale: Thus, ICT has been identified as one measure to ensure these emerging trends in the Nation's healthcare systems. Design/objectives: This study deployed a cross-sectional structured questionnaire to determine ICT knowledge and utilization among healthcare providers at National Hospital Abuja (n=271). Methods: We devised stratified random sampling in the recruitment of participants. Result: It was found that profession, possession of a laptop computer, age and sex were associated with knowledge, utilization and perception of ICT. Most participants were advanced in the use of electronic mail (51.8%) and the Internet (47.1%) mostly acquired through self-efforts (46.5%). However, a greater portion of the participants exhibited poor knowledge of database management (47.8%) and statistical analysis package (46.3%). The vast majority have used computer (95.0%) and the Internet (93.6%) for more than 3 years and many (86.2 percent) expressed a desire for further ICT training. Virtually, all participants in this study opined that ICT will improve medical care quality but some anticipated concerns over medical confidentiality as ICT becomes widely adopted in the country's healthcare systems. Aside their poor skill in database design and statistical analysis software, healthcare providers at National Hospital, Abuja possessed good knowledge and disposition towards ICT especially for the enhancement of their professional practice and for public health quality improvement. They indicated interest in further ICT training in order to enhance their information sources for an improved practice. It would be worthwhile to enrich their sources of information in order to improve public health.

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ICT knowledge, Utilization and Perception among Healthcare Providers at National Hospital Abuja, Nigeria

Adeleke¹

2015

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“…Perhaps given the decline in use of ECT in Scotland (Glen & Scott 1999), the mental health nursing group may not have differed much in exposure rates to ECT; hence the contradictory results when compared with this study. Though nurses seek knowledge, there is often a lack of relevant books in libraries as a result of poor funding in many educational institutions in Nigeria in recent years; this may partly explain the poorer knowledge scores among the student mental health nurses (Ajayi 2005). In this study the mean knowledge scores among the nursing students were higher when compared with that in the study by Wood et al (2007); this difference may be due to the fact that all the student mental health nurses had received practical experience on ECT.…”

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Electroconvulsive therapy: a comparison of knowledge and attitudes of student nurses and staff mental health nurses at a psychiatric hospital in Nigeria

James¹,

Lawani

Omoaregba³

et al. 2010

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is effective in the treatment of some psychiatric disorders. Among other reasons, service users may refuse ECT when indicated due to myth and little or lack of knowledge about the procedure. The knowledge of and attitude towards ECT among nurses may reflect on patients and influence treatment choice. Previous studies, conducted in developed countries have explored knowledge and attitudes towards ECT among nurses, but none have been conducted in this part of the world. The following article compares the knowledge of and attitude towards ECT among student and staff mental health nurses at a psychiatric hospital in Nigeria. A cross sectional survey of 135 student nurses and staff mental health nurses showed that knowledge and attitude scores were more positive among staff mental health nurses compared with student mental health nurses. Additional years of experience correlated with better knowledge and positive attitudes among staff mental health nurses. Overall, the majority of the respondents felt that ECT was beneficial to patients, was overused and required guidelines for its practice in this country.

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“…In the light of this, there is need for the providers to brace up and adopt ICT in their practice in order to enhance the emerging consumer-driven health information system such that will improve care process and outcome. Various studies [4,[20][21][22] reported that ICT use has become advanced among healthcare providers, it has become one source of information for care process and there is observed high and widespread usage of computer and the Internet. However, other studies [23-25 and 16] reported hindered access to the Internet, underutilization of evidence-based sources such as computer and the Internet in the delivery of healthcare services and obvious IT-skill gaps among healthcare providers.…”

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Computer and Internet Use among Tertiary Healthcare Providers and Trainees in a Nigerian Public Hospital

Adeleke¹

2015

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Abstract:The Nigerian healthcare system is characterized with paper-based health information management systems and grossly inadequate IT-skilled healthcare providers. Nonetheless, the emerging digitization and globalization has the potentials to speed up the transformation of the current healthcare systems and revolutionize the provider-consumer relationship between healthcare providers and their teeming patients. This cross-sectional study determined the utilization of computer and the Internet among healthcare providers and trainees in a Nigerian public hospital (n=232). More than half (112, 52 %) of the participants were females and the vast majority (154, 72.3 %) were aged forty years or below with a Mean age of 35 ± 9 years. More than a third (78, 36.6 %) of the participants had used the Internet for over three years and early exposure to computer use did significantly influence (χ2= 3.19; p= 0.00) their current computer use. Updates on professional issues appeared the major reason (98, 46.0 %) for searching the Internet and this was mostly accessed (149, 70.0 %) through cell phone. Google Scholar was the most (154, 72.3 %) deployed search engine and participants were often constrained (93, 43.7 %) to use these technologies by inadequate time due to their busy schedules. For better appreciation of the technologies, participants solicited for further training in health IT. Healthcare providers and trainees at Federal Medical Centre, Bida have good disposition towards computer and Internet use especially to enhance their professional practice and to improve patient care quality. They overwhelmingly indicated interests for further ICT training in order to boost their sources of information for an improved healthcare practice. Any effort made to enrich their sources of information and to enhance their usability of these technologies would be worthwhile.

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Information Seeking by Nurses in the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

ICT knowledge, Utilization and Perception among Healthcare Providers at National Hospital Abuja, Nigeria

ICT knowledge, Utilization and Perception among Healthcare Providers at National Hospital Abuja, Nigeria

Electroconvulsive therapy: a comparison of knowledge and attitudes of student nurses and staff mental health nurses at a psychiatric hospital in Nigeria

Computer and Internet Use among Tertiary Healthcare Providers and Trainees in a Nigerian Public Hospital

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