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Willingness to use telemedicine during COVID-19 among health professionals in a low income country.

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العنوان: Willingness to use telemedicine during COVID-19 among health professionals in a low income country.
المؤلفون: Ahmed MH; Department of Health Informatics, College of Health Sciences, Mettu University, Mettu, Ethiopia., Awol SM; Department of Health Informatics, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia., Kanfe SG; Department of Health Informatics, College of Health Sciences, Mettu University, Mettu, Ethiopia., Hailegebreal S; Department of Health Informatics, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Arbaminch University, Arbaminch, Ethiopia., Debele GR; Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Mettu University, Mettu, Ethiopia., Dube GN; Department of Health Informatics, College of Health Sciences, Mettu University, Mettu, Ethiopia., Guadie HA; School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Bahir dar University, Bahir dar, Ethiopia., Ngusie HS; Department of Health Informatics, College of Health Sciences, Mettu University, Mettu, Ethiopia., Klein J; University of South-Eastern Norway, Porsgrunn, Norway.
المصدر: Informatics in medicine unlocked [Inform Med Unlocked] 2021; Vol. 27, pp. 100783. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Nov 06.
نوع المنشور: Journal Article
اللغة: English
بيانات الدورية: Publisher: Elsevier Ltd Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 101718051 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 2352-9148 (Print) Linking ISSN: 23529148 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Inform Med Unlocked Subsets: PubMed not MEDLINE
أسماء مطبوعة: Original Publication: [London] : Elsevier Ltd., [2015]-
مستخلص: Introduction: The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has prompted rapid restructuring of the health-care system in an effort to stop the spread of the pandemic. Thus, telemedicine is more preferable in order to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic when face to face meeting is forbidden, allowing provision of health service over a distance. This study aimed to assess willingness to use telemedicine and factors that will determine their extent of willingness during COIVID-19 among healthcare providers working in south west of Ethiopia.
Methods: Institutional based cross-sectional study design was applied to assess willingness to use telemedicine among healthcare providers working at public health hospitals in south west of Ethiopia. Self-administered questionnaires were used. We have used Epi-info for data entry and Analysis of Moment Structure (AMOS) for analysis. A structural equation modeling was performed to identify factors associated with willingness to use telemedicine at 95% confidence interval (CI).
Result: In this study, less than half of respondents had high willingness to use telemedicine. Ease of use (β = 0.79, 95% CI: [0.72, 0.86], p < 0.01), attitude (β = 0.91, 95% CI: [0.87, 0.95], p < 0.01) and patient-physician relationships (β = 0.67, 95% CI: [0.54, 0.70], p < 0.01) were variables associated with willingness to use telemedicine. Anxiety towards technology (β = 0.74, 95% CI: [0.69, 0.79], p < 0.01) and patient-physician relationships (β = 0.87, 95% CI: [0.81, 0.92], p < 0.01) were determinant factors of attitude to use telemedicine.
Conclusions: The overall willingness to use telemedicine during COVID-19 in this setting is 46.5%. Addressing the problem related with ease of use, attitude and patient-physician relationships will help to increase the overall willingness to use telemedicine during COVID-19. An attempt to improving patient-physician relationship, provision of technical training for ease of use and working on healthcare providers' attitude will help to improve the willingness to use telemedicine.
Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
(© 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd.)
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فهرسة مساهمة: Keywords: CI, Confidence Intervals; COVID-19; ETB, Ethiopian Birr; HITs, Health Information Technologies; Healthcare providers; IT, Information Technology; TM, Telemedicine; Telemedicine; USA, United States of America; Willingness; α, Alpha
تواريخ الأحداث: Date Created: 20211115 Latest Revision: 20230130
رمز التحديث: 20231215
مُعرف محوري في PubMed: PMC8571100
DOI: 10.1016/j.imu.2021.100783
PMID: 34778509
قاعدة البيانات: MEDLINE
الوصف
تدمد:2352-9148
DOI:10.1016/j.imu.2021.100783