Recognition Levels on Personal Health Record in Accordance with Age and Disease Risk Factors

연령과질병위험인자 보유 여부에 따른 개인보건정보기록에 대한 인지도의 차이

Objectives: The aim of the research was to evaluate the recognition levels on PHR (Personal Health Record) which was regarded as a valuable tool in health areas. Old and young age groups (mostly university students) were two groups that were under investigation. The young age group was deliberately asked to pretend they were members in the old age group (adult group here after) in order to investigate the recognition level differences in such conditions. Methods: We performed common and grouping analyses based on two hypotheses. Firstly the survey results should be different in both age groups. Secondly people who had high risk factors of a disease (obesity in our study) should show higher recognition level on PHR based on an assumption that they were aware of serious outcome of the disease more than the others. Results & Conclusion: The first hypothesis was rejected as both groups show similar patterns in responding the survey. The second hypothesis was also rejected because both groups showed responses in similar patterns. Based on the outcome of our study and analyses, we concluded that there would be no differences in recognition levels on PHR between young and adult groups. Also, possession of disease risk factors, at least for obesity, would not affect the recognition level of PHR. Further elaborate researches with larger groups on the topic may be necessary in order to validate the method and to expand for various applications.