Table 2 Search engines and main sources of health information among Sudanese medical students (n = 761)
Variables | Overall, N = 761 | EBM Training | p-value* | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Yes, N = 199 | No, N = 562 | |||
Search engines used: | ||||
690 (90.7 %) | 175 (87.9 %) | 515 (91.6 %) | 0.2 | |
Google scholar | 243 (31.9 %) | 66 (33.2 %) | 177 (31.5 %) | 0.7 |
Wikipedia | 465 (61.1 %) | 119 (59.8 %) | 346 (61.6 %) | 0.7 |
PubMed/Medline | 245 (32.2 %) | 82 (41.2 %) | 163 (29.0 %) | 0.002 |
Medscape | 259 (34.0 %) | 89 (44.7 %) | 170 (30.2 %) | < 0.001 |
Cochrane Library | 47 (6.2 %) | 22 (11.1 %) | 25 (4.4 %) | 0.002 |
Scopus | 13 (1.7 %) | 6 (3.0 %) | 7 (1.2 %) | 0.11 |
Web of science | 68 (8.9 %) | 18 (9.0 %) | 50 (8.9 %) | > 0.9 |
Embase | 10 (1.3 %) | 6 (3.0 %) | 4 (0.7 %) | 0.024 |
Ovid | 2 (0.3 %) | 1 (0.5 %) | 1 (0.2 %) | 0.5 |
Others. | 31 (4.1 %) | 9 (4.5 %) | 22 (3.9 %) | 0.9 |
Main sources of health information: (You can choose multiple answers) | ||||
Medical books | 719 (94.5 %) | 187 (94.0 %) | 532 (94.7 %) | 0.9 |
Scientific journals | 313 (41.1 %) | 83 (41.7 %) | 230 (40.9 %) | > 0.9 |
Electronic media | 271 (35.6 %) | 66 (33.2 %) | 205 (36.5 %) | 0.5 |
Professional guidelines | 283 (37.2 %) | 90 (45.2 %) | 193 (34.3 %) | 0.008 |
Leaflets | 43 (5.7 %) | 10 (5.0 %) | 33 (5.9 %) | 0.8 |
Lecture notes | 353 (46.4 %) | 92 (46.2 %) | 261 (46.4 %) | > 0.9 |
Opinion of health professionals | 218 (28.6 %) | 57 (28.6 %) | 161 (28.6 %) | > 0.9 |
Others | 5 (0.7 %) | 0 (0.0 %) | 5 (0.9 %) | 0.3 |