Background: Many physicians encounter clinical questions in their practice. However, many of these questions are left unanswered due to various reasons. Objective: The study aimed to determine the information needs and information-seeking behavior among resident physicians in a tertiary hospital in Iloilo City. Methods: The study used a cross-sectional study design. The fifty-seven resident physicians of the different residency training programs of Iloilo Mission Hospital answered a twenty-minute self-administered questionnaire on May 2019. Data entry, descriptive statistics, and correlational analysis were done using Microsoft Excel version 1905 and SPSS version 26. Pearson chi square and Gamma tests at alpha level 0.05 were used to assess the association between variables. Results: Majority (80.7%) of resident physicians needed access to health information resource to answer their daily clinical queries. Respondents have an average of 4.7 questions per patient per meeting. They successfully answered 60.9% of questions encountered. Their preferred information resources were fellow residents, online journals, Medscape, consultants, and Google. The top three barriers to information seeking are lack of time, forgetting the question, and difficulty in finding answers in selected health resource. All respondents exhibit a positive attitude towards pursuing evidence-based answers. There is no relationship between age, gender, specialty, and attitude towards pursuing answers. Conclusions The resident physicians of Iloilo Mission Hospital pursued and answered 60.9 % of questions encountered in clinical practice. The respondents believed that using health information resources can improve patient care and update one’s medical knowledge.
Information Seeking Behavior ; Information Sources