Abstract

This study examined effort expectancy as correlate of electronic health information resources used by clinical sciences students in University of Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria. The study focused on purpose, frequency of use, effort expectancy and facilitating condition on the use of electronic health information resources use. The design of the study is descriptive survey. The population of the study was four-hundred and ten (410) students. A sample fraction of 0.61 was chosen and out of the population, 250 students were selected as the sample-size from the three departments that made up the Faculty of Clinical Sciences. The proportionate stratified random sampling technique was adopted for questionnaire administration. Descriptive statistics was used to analyse the research questions while Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used for analyzing the research hypothesis. The findings revealed that majority of the students 43(17.2%) used e-health resources very often especially electronic health books. It is revealed that electronic books is not highly positively correlated with the high recall of electronic information retrieved (r=0.360**; n-250; p.