The Causal Relationship Between Portal Usage and Self-Efficacious Health Information-Seeking Behaviors: Secondary Analysis of the Health Information National Trends Survey Data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient portals have drawn much attention, as they are considered an important tool for health providers in facilitating patient engagement. However, little is known about whether the intensive use of patient portals contributes to improved management of patients' health in terms of their confidence in acquiring health information and exercising self-care. There is a lack of randomized trials with these outcomes measured both pre- and postadoption of patient portals.

Objective

The aim of this study was to examine the causal relationship between the usage of patient portals and patients' self-efficacy toward obtaining health information and performing self-care.

Methods

This study was a secondary data analysis that used data from a US national survey, the Na

SUBMITTER: Park J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7875689 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature