Relationship between Health Knowledge and Willingness to Use Online Medication Guidance─Iwaki Health Promotion Project Research Report─

Masakiyo KUDO; Yoshihito KON; Sachiko KANAZAWA; Shinichi OBARA; Kazuhiro HOSOI; Kazufumi TERUI; Junichi NAKAGAWA; Masanori ABO; Hiromasa TSUYAMA; Rui HYODO; Naoya AIUCHI; Saki YONAGA; Takahiro HATAYAMA; Seiya KAWAGUCHI; Kozue ITO; Keigo SAITO; Iku ABUKAWA; Satoshi YOKOYAMA; Takamasa SAKAI; Fumiko OHTSU; Tatsuya MIKAMI; Shigeyuki NAKAJI; Takenori NIIOKA

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Relationship between Health Knowledge and Willingness to Use Online Medication Guidance─Iwaki Health Promotion Project Research Report─

VernacularTitle:オンライン服薬指導の利用意向と健康知識との関連─岩木健康増進プロジェクト健診研究報告─
Author: Masakiyo KUDO ¹ ; Yoshihito KON ¹ ; Sachiko KANAZAWA ¹ ; Shinichi OBARA ¹ ; Kazuhiro HOSOI ¹ ; Kazufumi TERUI ¹ ; Junichi NAKAGAWA ¹ ; Masanori ABO ¹ ; Hiromasa TSUYAMA ¹ ; Rui HYODO ¹ ; Naoya AIUCHI ¹ ; Saki YONAGA ¹ ; Takahiro HATAYAMA ¹ ; Seiya KAWAGUCHI ¹ ; Kozue ITO ¹ ; Keigo SAITO ¹ ; Iku ABUKAWA ¹ ; Satoshi YOKOYAMA ¹ ; Takamasa SAKAI ² ; Fumiko OHTSU ² ; Tatsuya MIKAMI ³ ; Shigeyuki NAKAJI ⁴ ; Takenori NIIOKA ¹
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1. Division of Pharmacy, Hirosaki University Hospital
2. Drug Informatics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Meijo University
3. Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine Preemptive Medicine
4. Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine Social Medicine
Keywords: online medication guidance; questionnaire; health knowledge; information and communication technology (ICT); Iwaki Health Promotion Project
From:Japanese Journal of Social Pharmacy 2024;43(2):68-75
CountryJapan
Language:Japanese
Abstract: People with high health knowledge tend to use information and communication technology (ICT) to obtain, maintain, and promote information necessary for health management. Therefore, experts hypothesize that improving health knowledge will increase the use of online medication guidance via ICT. In this study, we investigated the relationship between health knowledge and willingness to use online medication guidance among Iwaki Health Promotion Project health checkup subjects. The 736 examinees participating in this project in 2022 were surveyed on age, gender, number of people living with them, whether they exercise, drink alcohol, or smoke, whether they use smartphones, whether they use medication registers, their health knowledge score, and whether they take any medications. The presence/absence of desire for online medication guidance (1/0) was used as the objective variable to identify influencing factors. Univariate and multivariate analyses showed that independence was found for four factors: age (OR: 0.975, P<0.001), gender (male) (OR: 1.914, P<0.001), smartphone use (OR: 2.156, P＝0.004) and health knowledge score (OR: 1.405, P<0.001). This study found that health knowledge plays a role in the intention to use online medication guidance. In order to improve health knowledge, it will be necessary to enhance skills to obtain and use high-quality health information and to improve the environment for using ICT-based communication devices.