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Saudi Diabetic Patients' Attitudes Towards Patient Portal Use and Their Perceived E-Health Literacy
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Saudi Diabetic Patients' Attitudes Towards Patient Portal Use and Their Perceived E-Health Literacy

Rawan AlOthman, Nasriah Zakaria and Ahmed AlBarrak
Studies in health technology and informatics, Vol.245, pp.1211-1211
2017
PMID: 29295298

Abstract

Attitude Cross-Sectional Studies Diabetes Mellitus Electronic Health Records Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Health Literacy Humans Saudi Arabia
A cross-sectional study (n = 130) was conducted to identify diabetic patient's attitudes, patient portal feature preferences, and e-health literacy at two tertiary hospitals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 51% of patients had positive attitude towards the patient portal, 82% think a portal could help with self-care management. 53% of patients had low e-health literacy levels and 9% had high e-health literacy levels. The majority of the study sample have a positive attitude with low e-health literacy levels.

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