Medical Professionals’ Information Identification Skill Associated with Patients Health Records Utilization among Tertiary Health Institutions in South- South, Nigeria

Abstract

Information literacy skill is an aspect of information literacy that has been seen as a process of gaining the abilities that helps in the establishment of an information literate person. The study investigated medical professionals’ information identification skills and utilization of patients’ health records in tertiary health institutions in South-South, Nigeria. It employed the correlational research design, with a population of 8993 medical professionals. A sample size of 386 using the Krejcie and Morgan table and sampled using simple random sampling technique. A face validated instrument named ‘Medical Professionals’ Information Identification Skills and Patients Health Records Utilization Questionnaire (MPIISPHRUQ) was used for data colletion Simple regression was used in answering research questions.