Profiles and influencing factors of information literacy among Chinese clinical nurses: A latent profile analysis

Abstract

Aim: To clarify the subtypes of information literacy among Chinese clinical nurses and explore the factors affecting profile membership Methods: A total of 2490 Chinese clinical nurses were selected in the cross-sectional survey from March to May 2020. The clinical nurses completed the online self-report questionnaires including the general demographic questionnaire and information literacy scale. Data analyses consisted of latent profile analysis, variance analysis, Chi-square test and multivariate logistic regression.Results: Four latent profiles were identified: ‘Low information literacy (Class 1)’, ‘Moderate information knowledge (Class 2)’, ‘High information knowledge and support (Class 3)’ and ‘High information literacy (Class 4)’, accounting for 20.14%, 42.11%, 23.36% and 14.39%, respectively. Compared with Class 4, nurses with nursing title and more than 6-year working experience were more likely to be grouped into Class 1; not reading literature in the past month was more likely to be grouped into Classes 1 and 2; the more years of work was more likely to be grouped into Classes 2 and 3; the lower age and hospital-grade, in the countryside, less time spending in spare time to learn professional knowledge, less using databases to search literature, not participating in information literacy training, lower self-efficacy and social support were more likely to be grouped into Classes 1, 2 and 3. Conclusions: Information literacy has different classification features among Chinese clinical nurses. Information literacy of over half of the nurses surveyed is at the lower or middle level. Different types of clinical nurses have different characteristics. Nursing managers should actively pay attention to clinical nurses with low information literacy and help them improve their information literacy level.Implications for nursing: The information literacy level of each clinical nurse was different. Nursing managers should realize the importance of information literacy in clinical nursing work and pay attention to the improvement of clinical nurses' information literacy. Our study clarifies the subtypes of information literacy among Chinese clinical nurses and explores the influencing factors of nursing information literacy from both internal and external aspects, which provides a reference for nursing managers to improve clinical nurses’ information literacy more specifically.

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