Effects of health information literacy,perceived benefits and perceived risk on the willingness to use nursing skills of traditional Chinese medicine in elderly residents
- VernacularTitle:健康信息素养、感知效益和感知风险对老年居民中医护理技术使用意愿的影响
- Author:
Jing HANG
1
;
Xin'e MAO
;
Xiaojuan GUO
Author Information
- Keywords: traditional Chinese medicine nursing skills; health information literacy; per-ceived benefits; perceived risk; willingness to use; elderly residents
- From: Journal of Clinical Medicine in Practice 2024;28(2):109-113
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
- Abstract: Objective To explore the effects of health information literacy(HIL),perceived benefits and perceived risk on the willingness to use nursing skills of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)in elderly residents.Methods From August to December 2022,180 elderly residents were randomly selected from the Physical Examination Center of a grade A hospital in Yangzhou of Jiangsu Province by convenient sampling method.The questionnaire of general situation,Scale of HIL of TCM Health Care,and Questionnaire on the Acceptance of TCM Nursing Technology in Middle-aged and Elderly Residents in Community.The influence factors were analyzed by Chi-square test and multiple linear stepwise regression analysis,and the path relationship was constructed by structural equation model.Results A total of 151 valid questionnaires were collected.Education level,self-evaluation of health,the acceptance scores of participants receiving the TCM nursing skills or not,the health infor-mation literacy in TCM,perceived usefulness,perceived ease of use,and use concerns were the influ-encing factors of the willingness of elderly residents,which could explain 54.30％of the total varia-tion.Perceived benefit and perceived risk both had mediated effects between health information literacy and willingness to use,accounting for 67.48％and 32.52％of the total effect,respectively.Conclu-sion In the process of the guidance and promotion of TCM nursing skills,medical institution should pay attention to the influence mechanism of health information literacy,perceived benefits and perceived risk on the use willingness of elderly residents,and improve the service model.
