Awareness, perception and barriers to seeking information from online academic databases and medical journals as sources of information
| Autor: | Wen Ting Tong, Haridah Alias, Kulenthran Arumugam, Sharina Mahavera Mohamad Shakir, Li Ping Wong, Nasrin Aghamohammadi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Adult
Male Nursing (miscellaneous) Students Medical 020205 medical informatics media_common.quotation_subject Information Seeking Behavior Health Informatics 02 engineering and technology computer.software_genre 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Health Information Management Perception 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Humans University medical 030212 general & internal medicine media_common Response rate (survey) Internet Database Malaysia Survey research Databases Bibliographic Cross-Sectional Studies Female Periodicals as Topic Psychology Medical science computer |
| Zdroj: | Informatics for healthsocial care. 43(4) |
| ISSN: | 1753-8165 |
| Popis: | Medical students' use of online medical journals as a source of information is crucial in the learning pathway to become medical doctors. We conducted a cross-sectional survey study among University medical students between December 2012 and March 2013 to assess their awareness, perceived usefulness, practices, and barriers to seeking information from online academic databases and medical journals. The response rate was 67.53%. The majority of the students knew of the availability of online academic databases and medical journals. The mean score for awareness (4.25 of possible 11.0), perceived usefulness (13.95 of possible 33.0), and practice (10.67 of possible 33.0) were low. The mean barrier score toward using online academic databases and medical journals was 25.41 (of possible 45.0). Multivariate findings showed that significant barriers associated with overall usage of online databases and medical journals were 1) not knowing where or how to locate databases and 2) unsureness of using the Boolean operators. Availability of full text subscriptions was found to be an important factor in using online databases. Study findings highlighted the need to increase awareness of academic databases' availability and increase training on ways to search online academic databases and medical journals. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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