Investigation and analysis of the information ability of medical personnel under the network environment / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the information ability of medical personnel from a large general hospital that integrates medical care,teaching and research under the network environment for providing evidence to improve targeted information service in library.Method A self-designed and self-administered questionnaire was distributed through the questionnaire system on hospital office network.Information ability involved in the questionnaire mainly included the ability to precisely retrieve literature in Chinese and foreign language,commonly used retrieval strategies,and screening,evaluation and English full-text access methods.A total of 1 094 medical personnel voluntarily participated and completed the questionnaire,and complete responses were obtained from 1 065 individuals (effective response rate 97.35％).x2 and trend x2 tests were used for data analysis.Results The overall accuracy of precise retrieval information was only 6.1％,and the accuracies of precise retrieval literature in Chinese and foreign language databases were 14.6％ and 14.6％,respectively.Duty,education and working years of the medical personnel had significantly effects on the ability to precisely retrieve literature and the strategies and methods of information retrieval,screening,evaluation and full-text access.Conclusion Medical personnel had certain information ability,but library should carry out relevant training program to improve the medical personnel's information quality and ability further.