TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring barriers and opportunities for adoption of web portals in Russia. Example of a tuberculosis portal
AU - Kopanitsa, Georgy
AU - Karpov, Anatoly
AU - Lakovenko, Georgy
AU - Laskovenko, Andrey
AU - Yampolskya, Vladimir
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The aim was to study the opinions of tuberculosis patients and doctors and identify perceived opportunities and barriers to using a Web portal to optimize its use. The perceptions of 30 tuberculosis patients and 18 doctors (10 general practitioners and 8 TB specialists) from Tomsk, Russia were collected through semi-structured interviews. The responses were analyzed for content using principles of the grounded theory and thematic analysis, in order to gain insight into the participants' beliefs and attitudes towards adopting tuberculosis web-portal to increase the efficiency of the treatment and rehabilitation process.
AB - The aim was to study the opinions of tuberculosis patients and doctors and identify perceived opportunities and barriers to using a Web portal to optimize its use. The perceptions of 30 tuberculosis patients and 18 doctors (10 general practitioners and 8 TB specialists) from Tomsk, Russia were collected through semi-structured interviews. The responses were analyzed for content using principles of the grounded theory and thematic analysis, in order to gain insight into the participants' beliefs and attitudes towards adopting tuberculosis web-portal to increase the efficiency of the treatment and rehabilitation process.
KW - Evaluation
KW - Grounded theory
KW - Qualitative study
KW - Web-portal
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U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-653-8-170
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-653-8-170
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84973470137
VL - 224
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 170
EP - 174
BT - pHealth 2016 - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalised Health
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 13th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalised Health, pHealth 2016
Y2 - 29 May 2016 through 31 May 2016
ER -