Australian health professionals' health website recommendation trends
Autor: | Wayne Usher |
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Rok vydání: | 2011 |
Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Attitude of Health Personnel Health Personnel Population health Online Systems Patient Education as Topic Health care Humans Medicine Health policy Community and Home Care Internet Physician-Patient Relations Health economics Information Dissemination business.industry Public health Australia Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Reproducibility of Results Middle Aged Health Surveys Health promotion Family medicine Community health Female Health education business |
Zdroj: | Health Promotion Journal of Australia. 22:134-141 |
ISSN: | 2201-1617 1036-1073 |
Popis: | Introduction: This study was concerned with identifying motivations and trends associated with a health website recommendation from eight of Australia's major health professions to the health consumer. Health professions included in this study are: psychiatrists, general practitioners, social workers, dietitians, chiropractors, physiotherapists, optometrists and pharmacists. Methods: An online survey (www.limesurvey.org) was developed from a common set of questions negotiated between all eight health professions. Survey questions were constructed in an attempt to identify participants' reasons for or against recommending a health website to a patient. A 5-point scale (not, slightly, neutral, moderately, strongly) to measure influence was used throughout the question set. Results: This study indicates that Australian general practitioners (GPs) were the highest Australian health professionals to undertake a health website recommendation (86%), followed by psychiatrists (80%), with the lowest being physiotherapists (42%) and optometrists (33%). A profile of the Australian health professional who recommends a health website is identified as male, aged above 50 years, has had more than 10 years experience, works in a major city, is in private practice and has patient numbers exceeding 500 in a 12-month period (2009). Conclusion: Recommendations from this study include the need to develop mechanisms that identify high-quality online medical information and the development and implementation of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses which up-skill health professionals concerning the recommendation of health websites for health care delivery. |
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