. Abdolahad Nabiolahi; . Shahram Sedghi; . Rokhsareh Aghili; . Leila Nemati-Anaraki
Volume 11, Issue 3 , March 2021, , Pages 1-11
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of diabetes makes considerable costs for health‑care organizations.The increase of patient’s self‑care abilities by use of personalizing health ...
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BACKGROUND: The prevalence of diabetes makes considerable costs for health‑care organizations.The increase of patient’s self‑care abilities by use of personalizing health information prescriptioncan reduce these costs. This study was conducted to explore the benefits and challenges related topersonalizing health information prescription in diabetes clinical settings.MATERIALS AND METHODS: The samples included diabetes education officials working inspecialized diabetes clinics and Diabetes Research Centre managers of Iran and Tehran Universitiesof Medical Sciences. They were 21 cases and selected through purposeful sampling method.Semi‑structured interview and focus discussion groups were used to collect the viewpoints ofspecialists. Interview guide, based on literature review and the documents of diabetes, was usedin interviews and focus groups. Their validity was affirmed by specialists. The interview texts werecoded in MAXQDA10 software and analyzed through content analysis method.RESULTS: The most important benefits of personalizing health information prescription wereclassified into five themes as follows: medical services improvement, facilitation of consumers toinformation resources, improvement in patients’ knowledge and awareness, increase in self‑careability and disease management, reinforcing the relation between physician and patient and keepingphysician in the information prescription cycle. The challenges of personalizing of health informationprescription were revealed as follows: Recognition of patients’ personal characteristics at the turnof entering the system, systems’ functional modifiers especially bilateral interaction and relation topatient’s health file, content recognition, and creating suitable protocol.CONCLUSION: This study showed that diabetes clinical settings face different organizational andprocess challenges for establishing the personalization of health information prescription. The mostimportant challenges which should be considered in designing information prescription in diabetesclinical environments are as follows: reinforcing physicians’ recognition of information prescriptionbenefits, lack of integrative electronic health information system, and patient primary assessmentin the first stage of entering the patient into the system in respect of clinical and personal aspectsin information needs of consumer.
