Knowledge and Attitude of Nurses towards ICT Use in Healthcare Delivery in Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki (FETHA)

Abstract

The descriptive survey was carried out in order to determine the knowledge and attitude of nurses towards ICT use in healthcare delivery in Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki (FETHA), Ebonyi State. Three specific objectives with three research questions and two null –hypotheses were postulated to guide the study. The population of the study consisted of 1070 registered nurses in FETHA. A sample size of 107 respondents was purposively selected and used for the study. Data was generated through a researcher-designed questionnaire. Frequency and percentage were used to analyze research question one while means score and standards deviations were used to describe research question two and three. The Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used in testing null hypotheses one while Chi-square test was used in testing hypotheses two at .05 level of significance. The result of the study showed that: Nurses at FETHA had an average level of knowledge of ICT use in health care delivery as their grand mean percentage is (44.1%); the nurses had negative attitude towards ICT use in health care delivery as their grand mean is (2.32), the result further revealed that nurses had negative attitude towards ICT attributes as their grand mean score is (2.28). The independent variables (gender and age) considered, had no significant influence (P>0.05), on the attitude of nurses towards ICT use in health care delivery. The study supports the need for the adoption of ICT in every hospital and the ministry of health (Federal and State) must as a matter of urgency play an active role by coming up with awareness programme, like seminars and workshop on the ICT use among health care professionals including nurses, for a better health care delivery. Hence, any effort by government and other relevant bodies to organize seminar, workshop on the knowledge and awareness of ICT including training and retraining of health care providers including nurses on the usability of these technologies would be worthwhile.