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Telemedicine - Awareness, Knowledge, Attitude & Skills (AKAS) Questionnaire

Introduction and Description

Dear Respondent, 
Telemedicine is a new innovative tool that greatly impacted and posited within the healthcare context. This study examines the awareness, knowledge, attitude, and skills of the healthcare professionals within the primary healthcare centers (PHCs) within the National Guard Health Affairs (NGHA).
Please fill in your particulars anonymously and respond to each item of all the sections by choosing one of the responses on the scale. This survey is anonymous, and the data collected will be kept confidential and used for research purposes only. Hence, you are requested to give your straightforward response to indicate your awareness, knowledge, attitude, and skills regarding telemedicine technology. Completing this survey indicates your consent to participate in this research study. 
Thanking you in advance for participating in this survey. 
1.What is your health professional background?(Required.)
2.I am working in PHC at(Required.)
3.What are your total years of experience in your specialty?(Required.)
4.What is your age?(Required.)
5.What is your gender?(Required.)
6.What is the highest level of education you have completed?(Required.)
7.Which of the following best describes your current relationship status?(Required.)
8.What is your total household income?(Required.)
9.Do you receive work allowances or overtime?(Required.)
10.Do you live in..(Required.)
11.Indicate your travel time to the intended Primary Health Care (PHC)(Required.)
12.What is the number of seen outpatient cases per day?(Required.)
13.Do you live with a family?(Required.)
14.Do you have previous knowledge of Telemedicine?(Required.)
15.Did you utilize Telemedicine before?(Required.)
16.If your answer is yes, how can you describe your experience with it?
17.Currently, are you accessing and utilizing any telemedicine technological devices in the PHC?(Required.)
18.Are you aware of the following(Required.)
Don't Know
Heard of it
Know about it
Information and communication Technology (ICT) can effectively used in the health services.
Information Technology (IT) and ICT enabled services are the latest advancements in medical field.
Telemedicine is part of medical education technology.
Telemedicine and e-health are synonymous terms.
Face to face interaction of patient and healthcare providers is possible through telemedicine.
Telemedicine provides health care services where distance is a problem.
Images can be transmitted to a remote specialist for consultation.
Electronic home visits are possible for elderly patients through telemedicine.
Rural practitioners can transmit ECG and X-ray to consultants elsewhere i the world and seek their opinion.
CME programmes can be done effectively and in a cost effective way through telemedicine.
Telemedicine can be used in battlefield casualties, in prisons, for disabled patients and during natural and man-made calamities distance.
Telemedicine helps in making medical education to wider group of teachers and students.
19.Do you know(Required.)
Yes
No
Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication to provide medical information and services.
Patients management with drugs can be done through telemedicine.
Direct full consultation of patients is possible through telemedicine.
Through Telemedicine Consultation of patients through another professional via the internet is common.
Patients’ examination can be communicated through telemedicine.
Patients’ investigations can be communicated through the telemedicine.
Follow-up of patients can be done through telemedicine.
Management of patients including surgical procedure through the telemedicine.
Electronic medical record of patients’ registration can be maintained through telemedicine.
Electronic medical record of patients consultation with healthcare provider.
Health care through the internet is a recognized service.
20.What is your attitude towards the following statements?(Required.)
Strongly Agree
Agree
Neutral
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
Knowing more about computers and applications of ICT in medical field is a must for health professionals.
Telemedicine encourages team working among health professionals which leads to quality health care.
Application of ICT in health care services reduces the financial burden to government.
Health for all can be easily achieved through ICT enabled health services.
Health professionals can personally benefit from being more aware of what Telemedicine can offer.
I would attend training courses in Telemedicine if they were offered at my hospital.
patients should be encouraged to have access to medical information through e-mails and websites so that they become better informed of their medical condition.
Telemedicine combined with easy public access to health information and advice will make for a healthier population in the future.
use of Telemedicine will blur the distinction between primary and secondary healthcare by improving the links between patients, nurses, GPs and consultants.
use of Telemedicine could encourage more team working in healthcare
use of Telemedicine could make the distribution of healthcare more even with more emphasis on prevention
21.How can you describe your skills om the following (Required.)
Unskilled
Learner
Mediocre
Expert
Use E-mails with file attachments.
Scan documents and pictures
Videoconferencing
Digital photography
Gain access and search a medical site such as 'Medline', etc
Participate in e-discussion forums
Download and upload WebPages and images
Install and uninstall software
Use relevant software for reading medical images
Set up a web camera
Online chatting
Burn disc or copy files to external storage devices
Establish connectivity
22.If you are a telemedicine user, state the problems faced you in using telemedicine?(Required.)
23.If you are not using telemedicine, state why you are not using telemedicine?(Required.)
24.Please be free to give suggestions/recommendations for the effective use of telemedicine.(Required.)
25.Any other comments.
26.Collector's ID(Required.)