Health Information Needs and Reliability of Sources Among Nondegree Health Sciences Students: A Prerequisite for Designing eHealth Literacy

Background: Understanding health information needs and health-seeking behavior is a prerequisite for developing an electronic health information literacy (EHIL) or <a title="Learn more about e-Health" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/e-health"&...

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Autores principales:	Hussein Haruna, Ndumiso Tshuma, Xiao Hu
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Publicado:	Ubiquity Press 2017
Materias:	electronic health information literacy eHealth literacy health information needs health information sources information-seeking behavior health sciences students Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:93d0e7536c2e4d4383d7d48a0beb90952021-12-02T05:17:15ZHealth Information Needs and Reliability of Sources Among Nondegree Health Sciences Students: A Prerequisite for Designing eHealth Literacy2214-999610.1016/j.aogh.2017.03.516https://doaj.org/article/93d0e7536c2e4d4383d7d48a0beb90952017-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://annalsofglobalhealth.org/articles/240https://doaj.org/toc/2214-9996Background: Understanding health information needs and health-seeking behavior is a prerequisite for developing an electronic health information literacy (EHIL) or <a title="Learn more about e-Health" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/e-health">eHealth</a> literacy program for nondegree health sciences students. At present, interest in researching health information needs and reliable sources paradigms has gained momentum in many countries. However, most studies focus on health professionals and students in higher education institutions. Objective: The present study was aimed at providing new insight and filling the existing gap by examining health information needs and reliability of sources among nondegree health sciences students in Tanzania. Method: A <a title="Learn more about Cross Sectional Study" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/cross-sectional-study">cross-sectional study</a> was conducted in 15 conveniently selected health training institutions, where 403 health sciences students were participated. Thirty health sciences students were both purposely and conveniently chosen from each health-training institution. The selected students were pursuing nursing and midwifery, clinical medicine, dentistry, environmental health sciences, pharmacy, and medical laboratory sciences courses. Involved students were either in their first year, second year, or third year of study. Results: Health sciences students' health information needs focus on their educational requirements, clinical practice, and personal information. They use print, human, and electronic health information. They lack eHealth research skills in navigating health information resources and have insufficient facilities for accessing eHealth information, a lack of specialists in health information, high costs for subscription electronic information, and unawareness of the availability of free Internet and other online health-related databases. Conclusion: This study found that nondegree health sciences students have limited skills in EHIL. Thus, designing and incorporating EHIL skills programs into the curriculum of nondegree health sciences students is vital. EHIL is a requirement common to all health settings, learning environments, and levels of study. Our future intention is to design EHIL to support nondegree health sciences students to retrieve and use available health information resources on the Internet.Hussein HarunaNdumiso TshumaXiao HuUbiquity Pressarticleelectronic health information literacyeHealth literacyhealth information needshealth information sourcesinformation-seeking behaviorhealth sciences studentsInfectious and parasitic diseasesRC109-216Public aspects of medicineRA1-1270ENAnnals of Global Health, Vol 83, Iss 2, Pp 369-379 (2017)
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spellingShingle	electronic health information literacy eHealth literacy health information needs health information sources information-seeking behavior health sciences students Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 Hussein Haruna Ndumiso Tshuma Xiao Hu Health Information Needs and Reliability of Sources Among Nondegree Health Sciences Students: A Prerequisite for Designing eHealth Literacy
description	Background: Understanding health information needs and health-seeking behavior is a prerequisite for developing an electronic health information literacy (EHIL) or <a title="Learn more about e-Health" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/e-health">eHealth</a> literacy program for nondegree health sciences students. At present, interest in researching health information needs and reliable sources paradigms has gained momentum in many countries. However, most studies focus on health professionals and students in higher education institutions. Objective: The present study was aimed at providing new insight and filling the existing gap by examining health information needs and reliability of sources among nondegree health sciences students in Tanzania. Method: A <a title="Learn more about Cross Sectional Study" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/cross-sectional-study">cross-sectional study</a> was conducted in 15 conveniently selected health training institutions, where 403 health sciences students were participated. Thirty health sciences students were both purposely and conveniently chosen from each health-training institution. The selected students were pursuing nursing and midwifery, clinical medicine, dentistry, environmental health sciences, pharmacy, and medical laboratory sciences courses. Involved students were either in their first year, second year, or third year of study. Results: Health sciences students' health information needs focus on their educational requirements, clinical practice, and personal information. They use print, human, and electronic health information. They lack eHealth research skills in navigating health information resources and have insufficient facilities for accessing eHealth information, a lack of specialists in health information, high costs for subscription electronic information, and unawareness of the availability of free Internet and other online health-related databases. Conclusion: This study found that nondegree health sciences students have limited skills in EHIL. Thus, designing and incorporating EHIL skills programs into the curriculum of nondegree health sciences students is vital. EHIL is a requirement common to all health settings, learning environments, and levels of study. Our future intention is to design EHIL to support nondegree health sciences students to retrieve and use available health information resources on the Internet.
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title	Health Information Needs and Reliability of Sources Among Nondegree Health Sciences Students: A Prerequisite for Designing eHealth Literacy
title_short	Health Information Needs and Reliability of Sources Among Nondegree Health Sciences Students: A Prerequisite for Designing eHealth Literacy
title_full	Health Information Needs and Reliability of Sources Among Nondegree Health Sciences Students: A Prerequisite for Designing eHealth Literacy
title_fullStr	Health Information Needs and Reliability of Sources Among Nondegree Health Sciences Students: A Prerequisite for Designing eHealth Literacy
title_full_unstemmed	Health Information Needs and Reliability of Sources Among Nondegree Health Sciences Students: A Prerequisite for Designing eHealth Literacy
title_sort	health information needs and reliability of sources among nondegree health sciences students: a prerequisite for designing ehealth literacy
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Health Information Needs and Reliability of Sources Among Nondegree Health Sciences Students: A Prerequisite for Designing eHealth Literacy

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