Use of information and communication technology among dental students and registrars at the faculty of dental sciences, University of Lagos

Butali, Azeez; Adeyemo, WL; Akinshipo, Abdulwarith; Fashina, Azeez; Savage, KO

doi:10.4103/1119-3077.91758

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“…( 20 ) Glinkowski, Pawlowska and Kozlowska discovered that the definition of tele-medicine was known by 82% of nursing students in Poland. However, in our study, 32.3% of medical students had good knowledge, while 50% showed good practice patterns which were in compliance with other findings ( 13 , 14 , 18 ). In a study by Manganello et al, it was found that the use of HIT had a direct correlation with the level of health education, whereas the higher use of HIT was related to higher health education and the lower use of HIT was related to lower health education ( 22 ) Generally, the level of knowledge and attitude should be higher than the level obtained in our study.…”

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“…Glinkowski, Pawlowska and Kozlowska have surveyed the perception and knowledge of tele-health and tele-nursing among university students of nursing in Poland ( 17 ). In addition, the study of Butali et al was on the use of IT among dental students and resident physicians ( 18 ). In a case in 2015, Baraka et al assessed the acceptance and knowledge of IT in health care practice ( 19 ), while Sinha and Shetty studied the attitude of physicians towards the efficiency of HIT in Ayurveda educational hospital ( 20 ).…”

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Health information technology and health care activists: Where is the place of Iranians?

Ghoochani¹,

Kahouei²,

Hemmat³

et al. 2017

Electron Physician

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BackgroundThe level of knowledge and using health information technology by clinicians, students and staff has always been one of the essential issues in the field of health.ObjectiveThe objective of the present study was to evaluate HIT knowledge, attitude, and practice habits among health care professionals and students in educational hospitals in Iran.MethodsThis case study was carried out in 2016 on 539 personnel of 65 educational hospitals in Iran entailing three subgroups of physicians (n=128), medical students (n=97), and health record staff (n=314). A pretested self-administered questionnaire was designed to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practice of health information technology. It was comprised of three parts of “baseline general characteristics”, “knowledge categories”, and “attitude and practice”.ResultsIn total, 28.8% of participants had a good level of knowledge about computer science, whereas 37.7% had a poor level of knowledge. A total of 40% showed good attitude and practice, while 25.6% had poor attitude and practice. Furthermore, 16.4% of physicians, 32% of students and 33.1% of health record staff had good knowledge, while poor knowledge was reported in 45.3% of physicians, 25.8% of students, and 37.6% of staff (p=0.304). The trend of good attitude and practice habits were respectively 28.9%, 50.5%, and 40.8% in physicians, students, and staff, whereas these trends were respectively 30.5%, 4.1%, and 29.9% for poor attitude and practice (p=0.163). Generally, the knowledge level of participants was positively related to the rate of attitude and practice (r=0.847, p<0.001), so the higher knowledge level brought about the higher score in attitude and practice.ConclusionThe level of knowledge and practice of HIT was low among the physicians, students, and staff. Our university can provide a plenary program to promote the level of knowledge and information on practice of HIT.

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Health information technology and health care activists: Where is the place of Iranians?

Ghoochani¹,

Kahouei²,

Hemmat³

et al. 2017

Electron Physician

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“…Over half the dental students in our study reported that internet and electronic resources can replace print resources in contrast with the Indian dental students (Manhas, 2008) where the majority felt that the Internet and electronic resource could only supplement the print resources. The majority of the students in the current study were confident in the accuracy and the relevance of information from the internet and was similar to the findings of Nigerian dental students (Butali et al, 2011).The dental students in this study graded their basic PC skills higher than their search skills corresponding with the findings of dental students in Finland (Romanov and Aarnio, 2006).…”

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Utilization of electronic scientific information resources among undergraduate dental students in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Shetty¹,

Ghamdi²,

Amer³

2015

J. Dent. Oral Hyg.

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This study aimed to evaluate undergraduate dental students' utilization of electronic scientific information resources and to identify the specific trends found among students at different years of study. A cross-sectional web survey of all undergraduate dental students in Riyadh Colleges of Dentistry and Pharmacy was conducted. Descriptive analysis was undertaken and differences between groups were examined using Chi-square test. A response rate of 40.5% (n = 740) was achieved. 44% of the respondents used Medline for study purpose and 47.8% for research. 56.1% used full-text journal articles online for both study and research purpose. Only 25.9% searched Medline at least 1 to 7 times/month for study purpose and 22.2% for research. 42% used full-text journal articles at least 1 to 7 times/month for both study and research purpose. Clinical students were more likely to use full-text journal articles for study and research and female students were more likely to use Medline for research (p < 0.05). A majority of the respondents were non-users of Medline. The use of Medline and full-text journal articles increased moderately toward the end of the study. Training dental students in effective information searching and including the use of full-text articles in the dental curriculum will increase the use of electronic scientific resources.

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“…Among different institutions, only 28% of the health facilities which was very low as compared to other institution used computer for different purposes [4]. In contrary, there was high knowledge and use of computers among dental sciences faculty, at the University of Lagos, Nigeria [5]. …”

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Knowledge and utilization of computer among health workers in Addis Ababa hospitals, Ethiopia: computer literacy in the health sector

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BackgroundIncorporation of information technology advancements in healthcare has gained wide acceptance in the last two decades. Developed countries have successfully incorporated information technology advancements in their healthcare system thus, improving healthcare. However, only a limited application of information technology advancements is seen in developing countries in their healthcare system. Hence, this study was aimed at assessing knowledge and utilization of computer among health workers in Addis Ababa hospitals.MethodsA quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted among 304 health workers who were selected using stratified sampling technique from all governmental hospitals in Addis Ababa. Data was collected from April 15 to April 30, 2010 using a structured, self-administered, and pre-tested questionnaire from five government hospitals in Addis Ababa. The data was entered into Epi Info version 3.5.1 and exported to SPSS version 16. Analysis was done using multinomial logistic regression technique.ResultsA total of 270 participants, age ranging from 21 to 60 years responded to the survey (88.8% response rate). A total of 91 (33.7%) respondents had an adequate knowledge of computers while 108 (40.0%) had fair knowledge and 71(26.3%) of the respondents showed inadequate knowledge. A total of 38(14.1%) were adequately utilizing computers, 14(5.2%) demonstrated average or fair utilization and majority of the respondents 218(80.7%) inadequately utilized computers. Significant predictor variables were average monthly income, job satisfaction index and own computer possession.ConclusionsComputer knowledge and utilization habit of health workers were found to be very low. Increasing accessibility to computers and delivering training on the use of computers for workers will increases the knowledge and utilization of computers. This will facilitate the rate of diffusion of the technology to the health sector. Hence, programs targeted at enhancing knowledge and skill of computer use and increasing access to computer should be designed. The association between computer knowledge/skill and health care delivery competence should be studied.

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Use of information and communication technology among dental students and registrars at the faculty of dental sciences, University of Lagos

Cited by 9 publications

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Health information technology and health care activists: Where is the place of Iranians?

Health information technology and health care activists: Where is the place of Iranians?

Utilization of electronic scientific information resources among undergraduate dental students in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Knowledge and utilization of computer among health workers in Addis Ababa hospitals, Ethiopia: computer literacy in the health sector

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