 Medical researchers and clinicians as seekers of information: The Nigeria case studyStephen A. Osiobe Social Science & Medicine, 1986, vol. 23, issue 8, 757-761 Abstract: Medical researchers and clinicians drawn from a random sample of health professionals in Nigeria were surveyed by means of a questionnaire to determine their sources of information. Sources of information were categorized into library related sources and non-library related sources in the first instance and responses analyzed in order to demonstrate which of the two categories of sources are utilized most by medical researchers or clinicians. A two-factor ANOVA analysis with repeated measures on one factor showed that researchers make significantly more use of library related sources of information than clinicians. A further grouping of source into bibliographic sources and AV materials and their subsequent analysis by use of a chi-square test, showed that clinicians make significantly greater use of AV materials than researchers, while the reverse is the case for bibliographic sources. Keywords: library; services; professional; communications; Nigeria (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:socmed:v:23:y:1986:i:8:p:757-761 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Social Science & Medicine is currently edited by Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian More articles in Social Science & Medicine from Elsevier |
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