Geraldine Peterson?Clark|Parisa Aslani|Kylie Williams
Pharmacists’ online information literacy: an assessment of their use of Internet?based medicines information
University of Sydney|University of Sydney|University of Sydney
pharmacists need effective skills accessing using internetbased medicines information ibmi consumers however limited information regarding pharmacists use internetto develop use research instrument measure pharmacists internet knowledge search skills evaluation opinions using ibmia structured questionnaire examining general internet knowledge ability search select pertinent ibmi evaluation ibmi opinions using ibmi current internet use developed exploratory factor analysis performed analyse ibmi evaluation208 pharmacists responded response rate 206 large variation pharmacists scores mean scores low general internet knowledge mean 791 362 scale 016 search selection ibmi 498 291 010 opinions ibmi 4451 961 080 four factors professionalism website 4 items factor loading 062087 cronbachs alpha 084 disclosure 5 037079 073 appropriateness content 5 032050 065 standard information 6 031048 058 extracted evaluation scale explaining 3689 total variancea tool developed evaluate pharmacists skills opinions using ibmi wide range skills opinions highlighted need training online information literacy