護理人員對健康照護資訊的尋求及其相關因素之探討

An Exploratory Study of Nurses Health Care Information Seeking Behavior and Related Factors

本研究之目的在了解護理人員對健康照護資訊的需求與尋求，並探討影響資訊尋求之因素。採橫斷式調查法，於台南地區隨機抽樣七類不同機構護理人員各60人，總共發出 420份問卷，回收367份。結果發現：（1）在資訊需求中以獲取新知及個案照護之需求為最高；資訊尋求最常使用搜索引擎及請教同事。（2）資訊尋求行為受到資訊需求、網路資訊應用能力、服務機構、年齡、學歷及有無在職進修等因素影響，共解釋51.8%的變異量。護理人員因網路資訊應用能力與英文能力不足，而期望參加含有網路資源及英文資料庫使用之教學課程。研究結果能提供在職教育相關課程設計之參考。

The purpose of this study was to explore nurses’ health care information needs, information seeking and related factors. A crosssectional randomized survey was conducted in seven different health care institutions in Tainan. The questionnaires were given to 420 nurses and 367 responded. The results indicated: (1) Among information needs, the two with the highest mean values were“knowledge acquisition”and “client care”. The most frequently used means of information seeking were“using gopher”and“consulting colleagues”; (2)“information needs”,“competence in applying Internet information”,“organization”, “age”,“education level”and“in-service education”were predicting factors for information seeking behavior, which accounted for 51.8% of the total variance. The nurses expected to join teaching programs including the Internet and English database for upgrading their competence in applying Internet information. We anticipate that the fi ndings of this study will provide a reference for designing related inservice curriculums.