Use and perception of Internet for health related purposes in Germany: results of a national survey
Use and perception of Internet for health related purposes in Germany: results of a national survey
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DOI：
10.1007/s00038-007-6067-0
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发表时间：
2007-10-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Prokosch, Hans-Ulrich
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作者：
Dumitru, Roxana Corina;Buerkle, Thomas;Prokosch, Hans-Ulrich
目的：通过互联网患者赋权被视为一个机会，以改善医患沟通。关于为保健目的使用互联网的普遍程度以及患者如何看待这些技术的研究仍然很少。因此，我们研究了健康相关的互联网use.Methods的看法和趋势：作为欧洲调查的一部分，1.000德国人进行了采访，使用基于计算机的电话采访（CATI：Gabler-Hader-Design，随机数字拨号，最后一个生日的方法）在2005年10月。结果：一般上网（72.3%）和与健康有关的上网（53.1%）已经相当高。相对于其他健康相关信息来源，其重要性被评为相当低。年轻公民和有报酬工作的人更经常地将互联网用于健康相关目的，然而，他们认为互联网对于健康相关目的的重要性不如同行。结论：尽管互联网的使用在德国蓬勃发展，但消费者仍然重视并更多地使用传统的健康信息来源/与医生的沟通。将继续进行后续研究，并在2007年进行后续调查。
Objectives: Patient empowerment through the Internet is seen as a chance to improve patient-physician communication. Studies on the prevalence of Internet use for health related purposes and on how patients perceive those technologies are still rare. We therefore studied perception of and trends in health related Internet use.Methods: As part of a European survey 1.000 German individuals were interviewed using a computer-based telephone interview (CATI: Gabler-Hader-Design, random-digit-dialing, last birthday method) in October 2005. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression models were applied for elaborating characteristics of the health Internet users.Results: Internet use in general (72.3%) and for health related purposes (53.1%) is already quite high. Its importance, relative to other sources of health related information, was rated rather low. Younger citizens and people with paid work used the Internet more often for health related purposes, nevertheless, assessing it as less important for health related purposes than their counterparts.Conclusion: Despite booming of Internet use in Germany, consumers still value and use more the traditional sources of health information/communication with their doctors. Followup studies with a subsequent survey in 2007 will be pursued.