Title
Benefits of Online Health Education: Perception from Consumers and Health Professionals
Abstract
With the advancement in technology and availability of the Internet, online health education could become one of the media for health education. As health education is to persuade patients on health behavioural change, understanding perceived benefits of online health education is an important aspect to explore. The aim of this study is to explore consumers and health professionals opinion on online health education. Literature review was conducted and identified the benefits of online health education (OHE). Survey was conducted to health consumers and health professionals. Descriptive analyses were performed using SPSS Version 19.0. The analysis of the literature has identified a set of 12 potential benefits of OHE which had been used to understand the perceptions of the effectiveness of OPE sites and these have been validated in the study. This study has the practical implication as the study identified OHE effectiveness, which definitely can assist health practitioners on health education, which can lead to better health outcome.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/s10916-015-0224-4
Journal of Medical Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
consumers,health education
Health care,HRHIS,Nursing,Health education,Health belief model,Health policy,Perception,Medicine,Health promotion,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
39
3
1573-689X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
21
0.75
315
Authors
4
Search Limit
100315
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Khin Than Win113123.50
Naffisah Mohd Hassan2251.58
Andrew Bonney3210.75
Don Iverson4272.15