"Who's afraid?": Attitudes of midwives to the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for delivery of pregnancy-related health information.

CONCLUSION: Midwives face a number of barriers to effective use of ICTs in healthcare including material access, skills access, usage access and motivational access. Motivational access appears to be a key concern due to the high perception of risk associated with social media in particular. Reducing the motivational barriers through a range of interventions with midwifery staff may assist in overcoming other barriers to ICT use in antenatal care. Further research is required to determine whether these findings are generalisable to other healthcare contexts.
PMID: 25070730 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Women Birth - July 25, 2014 Category: Midwifery Authors: Dalton JA, Rodger DL, Wilmore M, Skuse AJ, Humphreys S, Flabouris M, Clifton VL Tags: Women Birth Source Type: research