Relationship of awareness, knowledge, attitude and skills in telemedicine among resident physicians in a tertiary government hospital in Las Piñas City: A cross sectional study
- Author:
Ethyl Joy H. Golosinda
1
;
Rouema P. Perez
1
Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords: Skills
- MeSH: Telemedicine; COVID-19; Delivery of Health Care; Awareness; Knowledge; Attitude
- From: The Filipino Family Physician 2023;61(2):229-236
- CountryPhilippines
- Language:English
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Abstract:
Background:During the COVID-19 pandemic, the advent of telemedicine was significantly utilized in providing continuous healthcare. Various studies showed that it is an effective way of health care delivery in any specialty cases such as in Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Medicine and Surgery. Recently, there’s an increase in utilization of the Awareness, Knowledge, Attitude & Skills (AKAS) Surveys in health care research but there’s paucity of data regarding its use in telemedicine.
Objective:The main objective of this study was to assess the awareness, knowledge, attitude and skills regarding telemedicine and correlate it to the various demographics among the resident physicians.
Methods:This is an analytical cross-sectional study utilizing an adopted, validated and self-administered questionnaire. A total of 37 resident physicians from different specialties were included in the study.
Results:This study showed that the resident physicians have high awareness, knowledge and attitude but with average skills regarding telemedicine. This study also found out that there is a significant association between their awareness and year level, knowledge and computer & internet skills, attitude and residency specialty & formal training regarding telemedicine, skills and computer & internet skills and time of exposure to telemedicine. Lastly, there’s an association between the total AKAS scores and time of exposure to telemedicine. All of which have moderate degrees of association.
Conclusions:Telemedicine, although novel, is very important specially this time of pandemic. After knowing that there’s significant association between the AKAS scores of resident physicians, the conduct of telemedicine should be guided by these especially in terms of policy making. It is recommended to have formal skills training in conducting telemedicine to all the resident physicians. It is also recommended to have a better internet connection and updated computer specifications in line with the current guidelines to be able to effectively deliver health care through telemedicine. - Full text:PAFP-61-2-Spread-76-83.pdf
