A Study of Medical Students’ Intention to Use Medical Database with Mobile Devices
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Su, Lin-Yi
Abstract
The research aim to study medical students’ behavior in using medical database and mobile devices via questionnaire survey, and analyze intention to use medical database with mobile devices. There are three factors of this study, including Convenience, Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use, to measure medical students’ intention to use medical database with mobile devices. Most respondents used medical database at specific place, and desktop website was the interface they mainly used. They thought the Evidence-Based Medicine Database is more useful than Primary Database. All the respondents owned mobile device and used it very often, but among them there are still a few people who didn’t use mobile devices to access medical information. We found that the grades and schools of medical students affected their behavior in using medical database and mobile devices also. The study used three factors to measure medical students’ intention to use medical database with mobile devices, and results as below. (1) “Convenience” has significant impact on “Perceived Usefulness”. (2) “Perceived Ease of Use” has significant impact on “Perceived Usefulness”. (3) “Perceived Ease of Use” has significant impact on “Intention to Use”. (4) “Perceived Usefulness” has significant impact on “Intention to Use”. (5) “Convenience” has no significant impact on “Intention to Use”. According to these results, there are four suggestions for university libraries and medical libraries to consider. These four suggestions include: (1) purchasing more medical database apps that can be used in mobile devices; (2) emphasizing medical students’ mobile literacy and libraries’ promotion activities; (3) designing Evidence-Based Medicine Database instructions according to medical students’ grades; (4) strengthening instruction on information literacy for medical students.
Subjects
Evidence-Based Medicine
Mobile Devices
Medical Database
User Behavior
Intention to Use
Type
thesis
File(s)![Thumbnail Image]()
Loading...
Name
ntu-104-R01126012-1.pdf
Size
23.54 KB
Format
Adobe PDF
Checksum
(MD5):aa1e42a6a7df5e756fdca82d3e780e2c