Rolf Wynn|Sunday Oluwafemi Oyeyemi|Andrius Budrionis|Luis Marco-Ruiz|Kassaye Yitbarek Yigzaw|Johan Gustav Bellika
Electronic Health Use in a Representative Sample of 18,497 Respondents in Norway (The Seventh Tromsø Study - Part 1): Population-Based Questionnaire Study
UiT The Arctic University of Norway|University Hospital of North Norway|UiT The Arctic University of Norway|University Hospital of North Norway|University Hospital of North Norway|University Hospital of North Norway|UiT The Arctic University of Norway|University Hospital of North Norway
electronic health ehealth services may help people obtain information manage health gaining attention technology improves traditional health services placed increasing strain present findings first representative largescale populationbased study ehealth use norwaythe objectives study examine use ehealth population 40 years age predictors ehealth use predictors taking action following use ehealth servicesdata collected questionnaire given participants seventh survey troms study troms 7 study involved representative sample norwegian population aged 40 years old subset extensive questionnaire explicitly related ehealth use data analyzed using logistic regression analysesapproximately half 527 975218497 respondents used form ehealth services last year 58 56249698 participants responded question taking type action based information gained using ehealth services done variables woman 158 95 ci 147168 younger age 4049 year age group 428 95 ci 363504 higher education tertiarylong 377 95 ci 340419 higher income 1 million kr us 100000 219 95 ci 177270 positively predicted use ehealth services living spouse 114 95 ci 104125 seen general practitioner gp last year 166 95 ci 153180 disease heart disease cancer asthma etc 129 95 ci 118141 also positively predicted ehealth use selfrated health status significantly influence ehealth use taking action following ehealth use predicted variables woman 116 95 ci 107127 younger 4049 year age group 172 95 ci 134222 higher education tertiarylong 165 95 ci 142192 seen gp last year 158 95 ci 141177 ever disease heart disease cancer asthma 126 95 ci 114139ehealth appears essential supplement traditional health services aged 40 years old especially resourceful woman younger higher education disease seen gp last year positively predicted using internet get health information taking action based information