Examining Patterns of Information Behavior Among Healthcare Professionals: A Case Study on Health Psychologists |
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| Authors: | P. A. Kostagiolas F. Samioti G. Alexias N. Korfiatis D. Niakas |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Archive and Library Science , Ionian University , Corfu , Greece pkostagiolas@ionio.gr;3. Hellenic Open University, Faculty of Social Sciences , Patras , Greece;4. Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences , Athens , Greece;5. Department of Computer Science, Institute for Informatics and Mathematics , Goethe University Frankfurt , Frankfurt am Main , Germany |
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| Abstract: | Psychologists are an understudied population in terms of information needs and information seeking behavior. This article provides theoretical analysis accompanied with some empirical evidence drawn from a nationwide survey of psychologists working in the Greek National Healthcare System (GNHS). The empirical study was conducted during the spring of 2011, through a specially designed questionnaire distributed to all psychologists within GNHS. Psychologists seek information for patient consultation purposes and for knowledge updating; they prefer using their personal library, internet search engines, and their colleagues as information sources, while the main obstacles they face include the lack of hospital libraries. This research identified the need to more strongly link hospital library services to health psychologists on the grounds of their information needs and behaviors. |
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| Keywords: | information needs information behavior health psychologists Greece survey |
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