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- Title
Practices, Perceived Benefits, and Barriers Among Medical Students and Health Care Professionals Regarding the Adoption of eHealth in Clinical Settings: Cross-sectional Survey Study.
- Authors
Long Hoang Nguyen; Lien Thi Khanh Nguyen; Tham Thi Nguyen; Vu Anh Trong Dam; Thuc Minh Thi Vu; Hao Anh Si Nguyen; Giang Thu Vu; Latkin, Carl A.; Ho, Roger C. M.; Ho, Cyrus S. H.
- Abstract
Background: eHealth is increasingly becoming an indispensable part of health practice and policy-making strategies. However, the use of eHealth tools in clinical practice and the perceptions of eHealth among medical students and health care professionals in Vietnam are not well understood. Objective: This study aims to investigate perceptions and practices regarding eHealth and their associated factors among medical students and health care professionals. Methods: A web-based cross-sectional study was conducted on 523 medical students and health care professionals. Information about the practices for, perceived barriers to, and benefits of eHealth application in clinical practices was collected. Multivariate Tobit and logistic regression models were used to determine factors associated with perceptions and practices. Results: In total, 61.6% (322/523) of participants used eHealth tools in clinical practices, with moderate levels of eHealth literacy. The score for the perceived benefits of eHealth tools was low. The most common barrier for eHealth utilization was human resources for IT (240/523, 45.9%), followed by security and risk control capacity (226/523, 43.2%) and no training in eHealth application (223/523, 42.6%). Age, eHealth literacy, and the use of the internet for updating medical knowledge were positively associated with using eHealth tools in clinical practices. Conclusions: eHealth tools were moderately used in clinical practices, and the benefits of eHealth were underestimated among health care professionals and medical students in Vietnam. Renovating the current medical education curriculum to integrate eHealth principles should be required to equip health care professionals and medical students with essential skills for rapid digital transformation.
- Subjects
MOBILE health; TECHNOLOGY Acceptance Model; MEDICAL students; PERCEIVED benefit; CROSS-sectional method
- Publication
JMIR Medical Education, 2022, Vol 8, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
2369-3762
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2196/34905