These findings may be used to help nurses to predict and identify the factors affecting individual's use of disease information on the Internet. Based on this knowledge, nurses will be able to develop nursing intervention programmes for the patients' health management.

This study found that there were actor and partner effects of infertility stress, marital adjustment, and depression on the quality of life in infertile couples. These findings may help nurses be aware of such effects and can be used as a baseline data in the development of nursing interventions for infertile couples.

Clinical practice should be focused on emotional support with family or society for Korean aged, especially the aged living alone. Also, the practice should be adjusted to encourage the health-promoting behaviour for them as well.

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These results can be applied to preoperative and postoperative interventions for children not only for tonsillectomy but also for many other operations. The development of various educational programs using smartphone text messaging for postoperative patient management would also be valuable.

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The purpose of this study was to explain how perceived ability affects users' acceptance of online health information in Korea. Data were collected by a Web-based survey, and, in total, 449 samples were used for final analysis. The hypothetical model of this study was based on the Technology Acceptance Model. A structural equation modeling was used to evaluate the relationship between the included variables. The final model with appropriate relations exhibited an adequate fit to the data. This study provides evidence that perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and perceived credibility significantly affect how individuals use health information from the Internet. The subjective health knowledge and Internet efficacy exerted strong indirect effects on users' attitude and intention to use the online health information via the mediators of perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and perceived credibility. This study supports the hypothesis that the perceived ability of users is related to their acceptance of online health information. Users' perceived ability, including subjective health knowledge and Internet efficacy, was confirmed as a prerequisite for their health information use on the Internet. The results demonstrated that perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and perceived credibility are substantive mediators. Future research should consider a wider array of characteristics of health information and users and incorporate these characteristics for the provision of more useful, user-centered health information.

Aim This study study aimed to investigate the effects of explicit and tacit knowledge sharing on clinical decision‐making abilities and the mediating role of trust among registered nurses at Korean hospitals. Background Decision‐making abilities comprise a key area of nursing practice and link nurses’ perceptions with behaviours. Introduction Tacit knowledge is embedded within an individual and cannot be expressed or transmitted to other people in a specific form. Over time, new nurses gradually gain experience and tacit knowledge and become experts. Trust, an organizational characteristic, may serve as a potential mediator in the association between knowledge sharing and decision‐making abilities among nurses. However, few studies have investigated the mediatory role of trust in this association. Method The data were collected from 210 nurses selected via random sampling. The research instrument in the model included Knowledge‐Sharing Behavior, Trust, and Clinical Decision‐Making in Nursing Scale. Structural equation modelling was used to analyse the collected data. Findings The study findings showed that explicit knowledge sharing directly affects decision‐making abilities, whereas tacit knowledge sharing is only associated with decision‐making abilities when trust plays a mediating role. Discussion A higher level of organizational trust can improve clinical decision‐making abilities via tacit knowledge sharing. Conclusion This study demonstrated that unlike explicit knowledge, which is shared more easily, tacit knowledge sharing does not directly lead to clinical decision‐making abilities. A higher level of organizational trust leads to a stronger beneficial effect of tacit knowledge sharing on clinical decision‐making abilities. Implications for nursing and health policy These findings concerning the mediatory role of trust on the association between knowledge sharing and clinical decision‐making abilities provide new knowledge that will allow nurses, managers, and researchers to support the clinical decision‐making abilities of nurses.