Hakan Yaman1, Erdinç Yavuz2, Adem Er3, Ramazan Vural4, Yalçin Albayrak5, Ahmet Yardimci3, Özcan Asilkan3. 1. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey. 2. Family Health Center, Rize, Turkey. 3. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Informatics and Biostatistics, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey. 4. Borsa Clinic, Department of Family Practice, Antalya Training and Research Hospital, Antalya, Turkey. 5. Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrics and Electronics, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.
Abstract
RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: In this study smartphones/tablet PCs and medical application utilization by family physicians and factors concerning the acceptance of medical application in family practice setting have been studied. METHODS: One hundred seventy-six participants voluntarily agreed to fill out a 27-item questionnaire. Data were analysed with descriptive statistics and eight items (acceptability of utilization of applications) revealed Cronbach's alpha of 0.965 and the factor analysis showed one factor explaining 80.6% of total variance. RESULTS: The mean age of respondents was 35.7 [standard deviation (SD) = 8.12; min-max = 24-52], 79 were male (45.9%) and 88 female (51.2%), 56 (32.5%) were single and 113 (65.7%) married, and the mean experience duration as a physician was 11.1 years (SD = 11.1; min-max = 1-28). One hundred sixty-seven (97.1%) had a smartphone and/or tablet PC. Smartphone and/or tablet PC were used since 3.7 (SD = 2.17; min-max = 0-12) years. Sixty-one (35.5%) felt that smartphone and/or tablet PC are very important, 92 (53.5%) important, 2 (1.2%) unimportant and 12 (7%) were undecided about this. One hundred eleven (64.5%) participants had a medical application on the smartphone and 66 (38.4%) on the tablet PC. They used 1.7 (SD = 2.04; min-max = 0-10) medical applications for 1.45 (SD = 2.53; min-max = 0-25) times on average. Eighty respondents (66.7%) used a medical application for any medical problem. CONCLUSIONS: Almost all family physicians used smartphone and/or tablet PC during daily practice, and the reason of use was commonly for communication and Internet purposes. Usage during working hours was limited, but medical apps were perceived mainly positively for receiving medical information via Internet. Looking at the medical apps' acceptability scale, participants were in agreement with the security, cost, contents' quality, ease of use, support, ease of finding, ease of accessing and motivation to use medical applications.
RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: In this study smartphones/tablet PCs and medical application utilization by family physicians and factors concerning the acceptance of medical application in family practice setting have been studied. METHODS: One hundred seventy-six participants voluntarily agreed to fill out a 27-item questionnaire. Data were analysed with descriptive statistics and eight items (acceptability of utilization of applications) revealed Cronbach's alpha of 0.965 and the factor analysis showed one factor explaining 80.6% of total variance. RESULTS: The mean age of respondents was 35.7 [standard deviation (SD) = 8.12; min-max = 24-52], 79 were male (45.9%) and 88 female (51.2%), 56 (32.5%) were single and 113 (65.7%) married, and the mean experience duration as a physician was 11.1 years (SD = 11.1; min-max = 1-28). One hundred sixty-seven (97.1%) had a smartphone and/or tablet PC. Smartphone and/or tablet PC were used since 3.7 (SD = 2.17; min-max = 0-12) years. Sixty-one (35.5%) felt that smartphone and/or tablet PC are very important, 92 (53.5%) important, 2 (1.2%) unimportant and 12 (7%) were undecided about this. One hundred eleven (64.5%) participants had a medical application on the smartphone and 66 (38.4%) on the tablet PC. They used 1.7 (SD = 2.04; min-max = 0-10) medical applications for 1.45 (SD = 2.53; min-max = 0-25) times on average. Eighty respondents (66.7%) used a medical application for any medical problem. CONCLUSIONS: Almost all family physicians used smartphone and/or tablet PC during daily practice, and the reason of use was commonly for communication and Internet purposes. Usage during working hours was limited, but medical apps were perceived mainly positively for receiving medical information via Internet. Looking at the medical apps' acceptability scale, participants were in agreement with the security, cost, contents' quality, ease of use, support, ease of finding, ease of accessing and motivation to use medical applications.
Authors: Charles Auffray; Rudi Balling; Inês Barroso; László Bencze; Mikael Benson; Jay Bergeron; Enrique Bernal-Delgado; Niklas Blomberg; Christoph Bock; Ana Conesa; Susanna Del Signore; Christophe Delogne; Peter Devilee; Alberto Di Meglio; Marinus Eijkemans; Paul Flicek; Norbert Graf; Vera Grimm; Henk-Jan Guchelaar; Yi-Ke Guo; Ivo Glynne Gut; Allan Hanbury; Shahid Hanif; Ralf-Dieter Hilgers; Ángel Honrado; D Rod Hose; Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat; Tim Hubbard; Sophie Helen Janacek; Haralampos Karanikas; Tim Kievits; Manfred Kohler; Andreas Kremer; Jerry Lanfear; Thomas Lengauer; Edith Maes; Theo Meert; Werner Müller; Dörthe Nickel; Peter Oledzki; Bertrand Pedersen; Milan Petkovic; Konstantinos Pliakos; Magnus Rattray; Josep Redón I Màs; Reinhard Schneider; Thierry Sengstag; Xavier Serra-Picamal; Wouter Spek; Lea A I Vaas; Okker van Batenburg; Marc Vandelaer; Peter Varnai; Pablo Villoslada; Juan Antonio Vizcaíno; John Peter Mary Wubbe; Gianluigi Zanetti Journal: Genome Med Date: 2016-06-23 Impact factor: 11.117