Understanding information seeking behavior of ophthalmology students in tamilnadu

Abstract

Purposes of this study investigate to the information seeking behavior of ophthalmology students. The objectives of the study are to identify the ophthalmology student’s information usage behaviour such as what kind of search engine, databases and social networking they have to use. And find their barriers. The data for the study is collected from the ophthalmology students in the period of 2021. A questionnaire method was used in this study. This study shows the results Out of 213, 147 respondents use Google, remaining 66 (31.0%) respondents use Yahoo. MS-Excel and SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) software’s for use data entry and data analysis. H test (Non Parametric test-Kruskal Wallis H test) used by the SPSS. Finding of the study, it’s clear that Google search engines were mostly used by the ophthalmology students. Majority of the students 118 (55.4%) use NOD (National Ophthalmology database), 55 (25.8%) students use Medline database. It’s clear that 95 (44.6%) percentage of ophthalmology students use WhatsApp for information seeking.