A survey of the adoption and perception of mobile health applications among community pharmacists in Malaysia

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作者
Ng, Hui Leng [1 ]
Sellappans, Renukha [1 ,2 ]
Loo, Jason S. E. [1 ,3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Taylors Univ, Fac Hlth & Med Sci, Sch Pharm, 1 Jalan Taylors, Subang Jaya 47500, Selangor, Malaysia
[2] Taylors Univ, Act Ageing Impact Lab, 1 Jalan Taylors, Subang Jaya 47500, Selangor, Malaysia
[3] Taylors Univ, Med Advancement Better Qual Life Impact Lab, 1 Jalan Taylors, Subang Jaya 47500, Selangor, Malaysia
[4] Taylors Univ, Fac Hlth & Med Sci, Sch Pharm, 1, Jalan Taylors, Subang Jaya 47500, Selangor, Malaysia
关键词
community pharmacy; delivery of care; e-health; professional practice; use of internet as information source;
D O I
10.1093/ijpp/riad042
中图分类号
R9 [药学];
学科分类号
1007 ;
摘要
Objectives To determine the adoption and perception of mobile health (mHealth) applications among community pharmacists in Malaysia. Methods A cross-sectional survey using a self-administered questionnaire was conducted with 300 community pharmacists in the Klang Valley, Malaysia using a stratified sampling approach. The questionnaire consisted of 36 questions with three sections: demographic data, adoption of mHealth applications and perception towards mHealth applications. Descriptive and inferential tests as well as exploratory factor analysis were used to analyse the data. Key findings Adoption of mHealth applications by community pharmacists for both professional and personal use was relatively high at 79.7%. Utilised mHealth applications were primarily from the medical references category, while applications for patient monitoring, personal care and fitness were used to a lesser degree. Among mHealth application users, only 65.7% recommended them to their patients. Overall perception towards mHealth applications was positive, but perception towards the benefits and favour of mHealth applications for their patients was lower. This was corroborated by the factor analysis, which identified four main factors explaining 59.9% of variance in the dataset. These factors were perception towards use in their own professional practice, perception on benefits and use in their patients, perception on specific features of mHealth applications, and reliability of mHealth applications. Conclusions Adoption of mHealth applications among community pharmacists in Malaysia is high. Community pharmacists are more likely to use mHealth applications professionally and personally but less likely to recommend them to patients due to less favourable perceptions on how patients will benefit from mHealth applications.
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