RAPID: Collaborative Research: Ebola-related Information Obtained by Healthcare Providers: Effects of Formal and Informal Communication Channels and Organizational Structure

RAPID：协作研究：医疗保健提供者获得的埃博拉相关信息：正式和非正式沟通渠道和组织结构的影响

• 批准号: 1521089
• 负责人: Bo Xie
• 金额: $ 16.53万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-03-15 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1521089&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Collaborative; Research; Ebola; related

The spread of Ebola from Africa to the United States has received much attention among the general public and healthcare providers (e.g., nurses). Healthcare providers need a diverse range of information in order to protect themselves and the public. However, they may, or may not, be able to obtain such information from their employers. In critical and time sensitive situations, they may obtain information from other sources to complement employer-provided information. This research aims to study the dynamics on the types of information healthcare providers wanted and obtained and their relationships with organizational network and structural characteristics. This research is grounded in the literature on social network and organizational structure. It also builds on the principal investigators' previous productive collaboration on the health information wants (HIW) concept, framework, and questionnaire, which emphasizes a bottom-up approach to understanding the types and amount of a broad range of health information wanted by individuals. This study can advance knowledge about social network and organizational structure by examining their effects on healthcare providers in various healthcare organizations in time sensitive situations like the current Ebola crisis. It can also advance the HIW framework by examining its use in the context of healthcare organizations. It bridges together these two previously separated bodies of literature and creates new knowledge about the information healthcare providers wanted and obtained, as well as their relationships with social network and organizational structure. Study findings can help develop informational, educational interventions to effectively and efficiently provide the right types and amount of information healthcare providers in different organizations want in Ebola-like emergencies in the future. The findings may lead to improved health and well-being of healthcare providers and the patients they care for when similar crises occur.

埃博拉病毒从非洲传播到美国引起了公众和医疗保健提供者（例如护士）的高度关注。医疗保健提供者需要各种信息来保护自己和公众。然而，他们可能能够也可能无法从雇主那里获得此类信息。在关键和时间敏感的情况下，他们可以从其他来源获取信息来补充雇主提供的信息。本研究旨在研究所需和获得的信息医疗保健提供者类型的动态及其与组织网络和结构特征的关系。这项研究以社交网络和组织结构方面的文献为基础。它还建立在主要研究人员之前就健康信息需求 (HIW) 概念、框架和调查问卷进行富有成效的合作的基础上，强调采用自下而上的方法来了解个人想要的广泛健康信息的类型和数量。这项研究可以通过检查社交网络和组织结构在当前埃博拉危机等时间敏感情况下对各种医疗机构中医疗保健提供者的影响来增进对社交网络和组织结构的了解。它还可以通过检查 HIW 框架在医疗保健组织中的使用来推进 HIW 框架。它将这两个先前分离的文献结合在一起，并创造了有关医疗保健提供者想要和获得的信息以及他们与社交网络和组织结构的关系的新知识。研究结果可以帮助制定信息、教育干预措施，以有效和高效地为不同组织的医疗保健提供者提供未来埃博拉类紧急情况所需的正确类型和数量的信息。当发生类似危机时，这些发现可能会改善医疗保健提供者及其所照顾的患者的健康和福祉。