Relationship between Patients Access to Health Information and Coping with Chronic Disease

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dc.contributor.authorAnyaoku, Ebele N
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-21T00:55:42Z
dc.date.available2024-05-21T00:55:42Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionInformation Impact: Journal of Information and Knowledge Management, 9(3), 117-131. https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/iijikm.v9i3.9
dc.description.abstractThe research examined the association between patients’ demographics, access to health information on coping and self-efficacy in managing chronic illness. This is a correlation study. The population for this study is seven hundred and eighty-four patients with chronic diseases in two Federal Government Teaching Hospitals in South-East, Nigeria. A Questionnaire and a Coping with Chronic Diseases Self-Efficacy Scale were instruments for data collection. Correlation analysis shows that access to coping information was positively and significantly correlated with self-efficacy in managing chronic diseases. Multiple Regression suggests that disease type was the only patient characteristics significantly associated with self-efficacy when patients have access to coping information. The study concludes that the significant associations indicate that health information can enable patients develop self-efficacy for coping with chronic diseases. Hospital administrators and all stakeholders involved in health care should create an enabling environment for information sharing and flow to patients with chronic diseases. Librarians should play some roles in creating access to health information for patients with chronic diseases through developing and promoting consumer health information resources.
dc.identifier.citationAnyaoku, E. N. (2018). Relationship between Patients’ Access to Health Information and Coping with Chronic Diseases. Information Impact: Journal of Information and Knowledge Management, 9(3), 117-131.
dc.identifier.doi10.4314/iijikm.v9i3.9
dc.identifier.issn2360-994X
dc.identifier.issn2141-4297
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.uniabuja.edu.ng/handle/123456789/612
dc.relation.ispartofInformation Impact: Journal of Information and Knowledge Management
dc.titleRelationship between Patients Access to Health Information and Coping with Chronic Disease
dc.typejournal-article
oaire.citation.issue3
oaire.citation.volume9
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