TY - GEN
T1 - Nurses attitudes towards the informed patient
AU - Barnoy, Sivia
AU - Volfin-Pruss, Diana
AU - Ehrenfeld, Malka
AU - Kushnir, Talma
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The widespread use of the Internet for health information has resulted in knowledgeable clients referred to as "informed patients". Many patients bring the information they downloaded from the Internet to the appointments with the health care workers. Objectives: The present study examined the prevalence of nurses' encounters and attitudes to these patients and factors that might influence attitudes. Method: A cross-sectional study of a convenience sample of 110 nurses in Israel was conducted. The main variables measured were: attitudes, professional self-esteem, and two indices of Internet use. Results: The results show that most nurses held positive attitudes towards patients presenting Internet Medical Information. Nurses with prior experience had more positive attitudes than nurses with no such experience. Professional self-esteem and Internet use were also positively correlated to positive attitudes to these patients. Conclusions: Since patients search the Internet for medical information, there is a need to prepare and train nurses to be Internet literate in order to be prepared for encounters with such patients.
AB - The widespread use of the Internet for health information has resulted in knowledgeable clients referred to as "informed patients". Many patients bring the information they downloaded from the Internet to the appointments with the health care workers. Objectives: The present study examined the prevalence of nurses' encounters and attitudes to these patients and factors that might influence attitudes. Method: A cross-sectional study of a convenience sample of 110 nurses in Israel was conducted. The main variables measured were: attitudes, professional self-esteem, and two indices of Internet use. Results: The results show that most nurses held positive attitudes towards patients presenting Internet Medical Information. Nurses with prior experience had more positive attitudes than nurses with no such experience. Professional self-esteem and Internet use were also positively correlated to positive attitudes to these patients. Conclusions: Since patients search the Internet for medical information, there is a need to prepare and train nurses to be Internet literate in order to be prepared for encounters with such patients.
KW - Attitudes
KW - Informed patient
KW - Internet self-efficacy
KW - Medical Internet information
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70349564765&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-60750-024-7-396
DO - 10.3233/978-1-60750-024-7-396
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C2 - 19592873
AN - SCOPUS:70349564765
SN - 9781607500247
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 396
EP - 399
BT - Connecting Health and Humans - Proceedings of NI2009
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 10th International Congress on Nursing Informatics: Connecting Health and Humans, NI2009
Y2 - 28 June 2009 through 1 July 2009
ER -