Strategy of health information seeking among physicians, medical residents, and students after introducing digital library and information technology in teaching hospitals of Iran

Kahouei, Mehdi; Alaei, Sefollah; Panahi, Sohaila Sadat Ghazavi Shariat; Zadeh, Jamileh Mahdi

doi:10.1111/jebm.12154

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“…The majority of the 16 studies ( n = 15) focused entirely on EBP, specifically perceptions, knowledge, and barriers (Amini, Taghiloo, Bagheri, Fallah, & Ramazani Badr, ; Ay, Gençtürk, & Turan Miral, ; DeBruyn et al., ; Duncombe, ; Ebrahimi, Seyedrasooli, Khodadadi, & Yousefi, ; Farokhzadian et al., ; Hweidi, Tawalbeh, Al‐Hassan, Alayadeh, & Al‐Smadi, ; Jordan, Bowers, & Morton, ; Kahouei, Alaei, Shariat Panahi, & Zadeh, ; Karki et al., ; Khammarnia, Haj Mohammadi, Amani, Rezaeian, & Setoodehzadeh, ; Mehrdad, Salsali, & Kazemnejad, ; Naderkhah et al., ; Subramaniam, Krishinan, Thandapani, Van Rostenberghe, & Berahim, ; Yava et al., ). It is unlikely that studies did not report on outcomes (barriers to EBP among nurses) since most of the studies included nurses as the participants.…”

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“…Individual‐related barriers emerged from categories including lack of ability to work with a computer and insufficient English‐language proficiency. Others included lack of trust and underestimation of the importance of EBP, individual perceptions that underscore clinical decision making based on evidence, resistance to change and perceiving research as a worthless action by nurses (Kahouei et al, ). Studies also highlighted a lack of access to individuals who can serve as EBP mentors and knowledgeable colleagues with whom to discuss research, becoming accustomed to a specific structure of practice, minimal perceived self benefits, and lack of interest (Ducombe, 2018; Naderkhah et al, ).…”

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Barriers Associated With Evidence‐Based Practice Among Nurses in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries: A Systematic Review

Shayan

Kiwanuka

Nakaye

2019

Worldviews Ev Based Nurs

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Background Evidence‐based practice (EBP) is both a goal and an approach that requires a combination of clinical experience with the most credible recent research evidence when making decisions in healthcare practice. The approach has been widely embraced; however, an evidence‐to‐practice gap still exists. Aim To assess barriers to EBP among nurses in low‐ and middle‐income countries. Methods This review conforms to the PRISMA statement. Databases PubMed, Scopus, EMBASE, and Web of Science/Knowledge were searched using a combination of keywords that included “barriers,” “evidence‐based practice,” and “nurses.” The references of the selected articles were also hand‐searched to obtain additional relevant articles. Studies published in peer‐reviewed journals in English between 2000 and 2018 were included in the review. Results Sixteen articles were included in the analysis, with a total number of 8,409 participants. Both qualitative and quantitative studies were included in the review. Three main themes emerged from eight categories found. The three main themes were institutional‐related barriers, interdisciplinary barriers, and nurse‐related barriers. The theme of institutional‐related barriers emerged from four categories, which included scant resources, limited access to information, inadequate staffing, and lack of institutional support. The theme of interdisciplinary barriers emerged from subcategories that included lack of communication between academic and clinical practice environments, inconsistency between education and practice in the nursing discipline, lack of teamwork, and the public's negative image about the nursing profession. Finally, the theme of nurse‐related barriers emerged from categories including perceived limitations in the scope of nurses’ practice, time, knowledge of EBP, and individual‐related barriers. Linking Evidence to Action These findings may guide the design of future interventions aimed at fostering EBP. Implementing EBP in practice should be systematic and requires institutional will and interdisciplinary and individual commitment. It should be a collective goal and a win‐win situation for nurses, clinicians, and healthcare organizations.

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Barriers Associated With Evidence‐Based Practice Among Nurses in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries: A Systematic Review

Shayan

Kiwanuka

Nakaye

2019

Worldviews Ev Based Nurs

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“…The results showed that there was a significant and meaningful correlation between the students’ attitude regarding the capability of the website of the health sector in all components of health literacy (p<0.001). This reflects the fact that each of the components of health literacy affects the other because health literacy includes the ability to use the sophisticated medical skills of reading, listening and decision analysis, and the ability to use these skills in health situations is not necessarily associated with years of study or general reading ability ( 29 , 30 ). In a study by Alizadeh et al, health literacy was recognized as an effective factor in physical performance ( 31 ).…”

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Students’ attitudes towards impact of the health department website on their health literacy in Semnan University of Medical Sciences

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Background and aimHealth literacy has been of interest to policymakers because of its impact on health decision-making as one of the important issues for promoting community health and improving the quality of health care delivery. Therefore, it seems necessary to examine the status of the website of the health sector of the University of Medical Sciences in promoting health literacy from the viewpoint of the students.MethodsThis cross-sectional study was performed on 529 medical and allied students in schools affiliated to Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran between 2016 and 2017. In this study, a valid and reliable adult health literacy questionnaire designed by Montazeri et al. was used. The questionnaire was distributed among students in medical and allied health schools and they were asked to complete the questionnaire. Independent-samples t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson product-moment correlation were used to analyze data by SPSS 19.ResultsMean scores of the participants’ attitudes towards reading of health information was 3.14 and towards decision and usage of health information was 2.53. Relationship between the study subjects’ demographic characteristics and their attitudes was significant (p<0.05).ConclusionThis study showed that interventional strategies are necessary to lead students to make effective use of the university’s health department website. Hence, the results of this study showed that the website of the health department needs to be redesigned, and this design would allow a better link between the University of Medical Sciences and its audience to promote health literacy.

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“…Health professionals are encouraged to practise evidence‐based medicine (EBM), but with the continuous expansion of available health data, information retrieval has become more complex and more time‐consuming. Although substantial efforts have been made in the past years to improve users’ abilities to perform effective and efficient information retrieval, many recent studies have shown that a significant proportion of health professionals from different fields still report barriers to information retrieval for EBM (Alving, Christensen, & Thrysøe, 2018; Harris, Allen, Jacob, Elliott, & Brownson, 2014; Hisham, Ng, Liew, Hamzah, & Ho, 2016; Isham, Bettiol, Hoang, & Crocombe, 2016; Kahouei, Alaei, Shariat Panahi, & Zadeh, 2015; Schuers et al, 2016). The most commonly reported barriers are work overload, lack of time, lack of information retrieval training, skills, experience and lack of confidence to find and use evidence‐based information.…”

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Performance evaluation of three semantic expansions to query PubMed

Massonnaud

Lelong

Kerdelhué

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Health Info Libraries J

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Background PubMed is one of the most important basic tools to access medical literature. Semantic query expansion using synonyms can improve retrieval efficacy. Objective The objective was to evaluate the performance of three semantic query expansion strategies. Methods Queries were built for forty MeSH descriptors using three semantic expansion strategies (MeSH synonyms, UMLS mappings, and mappings created by the CISMeF team), then sent to PubMed. To evaluate expansion performances for each query, the first twenty citations were selected, and their relevance were judged by three independent evaluators based on the title and abstract. Results Queries built with the UMLS expansion provided new citations with a slightly higher mean precision (74.19%) than with the CISMeF expansion (70.28%), although the difference was not significant. Inter‐rater agreement was 0.28. Results varied greatly depending on the descriptor selected. Discussion The number of citations retrieved by the three strategies and their precision varied greatly according to the descriptor. This heterogeneity could be explained by the quality of the synonyms. Optimal use of these different expansions would be through various combinations of UMLS and CISMeF intersections or unions. Conclusion Information retrieval tools should propose different semantic expansions depending on the descriptor and the search objectives.

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Strategy of health information seeking among physicians, medical residents, and students after introducing digital library and information technology in teaching hospitals of Iran

Cited by 7 publications

References 43 publications

Barriers Associated With Evidence‐Based Practice Among Nurses in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries: A Systematic Review

Barriers Associated With Evidence‐Based Practice Among Nurses in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries: A Systematic Review

Students’ attitudes towards impact of the health department website on their health literacy in Semnan University of Medical Sciences

Performance evaluation of three semantic expansions to query PubMed

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