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. 2010 Jun 11:5:45.
doi: 10.1186/1748-5908-5-45.

Healthcare professionals' intentions to use wiki-based reminders to promote best practices in trauma care: a survey protocol

Patrick M Archambault  1 , France Légaré, André Lavoie, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Jean Lapointe, Sylvie St-Jacques, Julien Poitras, Karine Aubin, Sylvain Croteau, Martin Pham-Dinh
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Healthcare professionals' intentions to use wiki-based reminders to promote best practices in trauma care: a survey protocol

Patrick M Archambault et al. Implement Sci. .

Abstract

Background: Healthcare professionals are increasingly using wikis as collaborative tools to create, synthesize, share, and disseminate knowledge in healthcare. Because wikis depend on collaborators to keep content up-to-date, healthcare professionals who use wikis must adopt behaviors that foster this collaboration. This protocol describes the methods we will use to develop and test the metrological qualities of a questionnaire that will assess healthcare professionals' intentions and the determinants of those intentions to use wiki-based reminders that promote best practices in trauma care.

Methods: Using the Theory of Planned Behavior, we will conduct semi-structured interviews of healthcare professionals to identify salient beliefs that may affect their future use of wikis. These beliefs will inform our questionnaire on intended behavior. A test-retest of the survey will verify the questionnaire's stability over time. We will interview 50 healthcare professionals (25 physicians and 25 allied health professionals) working in the emergency departments of three trauma centers in Quebec, Canada. We will analyze the content of the interviews and construct and pilot a questionnaire. We will then test the revised questionnaire with 30 healthcare professionals (15 physicians and 15 allied health professionals) and retest it two weeks later. We will assess the internal consistency of the questionnaire constructs using Cronbach's alpha coefficients and determine their stability with the intra-class correlation (ICC).

Discussion: To our knowledge, this study will be the first to develop and test a theory-based survey that measures healthcare professionals' intentions to use a wiki-based intervention. This study will identify professionals' salient beliefs qualitatively and will quantify the psychometric capacities of the questionnaire based on those beliefs.

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Theoretical framework of the Theory of Planned Behavior.[41]
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