Telemedicine and E-Learning in a Primary Care Setting in Sudan: The Experience of the Gezira Family Medicine Project

Table 1

Doctors’ evaluation of the ICT tools used at the GFMP (using Chi square test) ().

Statement text	Distribution (%) of doctors’ evaluation						Mean values
	Strongly agree (6)	Somewhat agree (5)	Agree (4)	Disagree (3)	Somewhat disagree (2)	Strongly disagree (1)	Total	Male	Female
Telemedicine
(1) Telemedicine is of high benefit for my patients	62.8	11.5	25.7	0	0	0	5.37	5.43	5.31	0.839
(2) It is a good teaching tool for family doctors	63.4	6.2	29.5	0.9	0	0	5.32	5.41	5.26	0.714
(3) I use it usually when the patient is in my office	25.2	15.3	40.5	14.4	0.9	3.6	4.39	4.41	4.37	0.924
(4) My patients are usually satisfied with telemedicine	28.2	20.9	40.0	6.4	0.9	3.6	4.58	4.74	4.48	0.571
(5) The patients miss the confidence on family doctor when telemedicine is used	6.4	6.4	7.3	48.6	5.5	25.7	2.83	2.95	2.74	0.516
Electronical medical records (EMR)
(1) The EMR system is highly important for my practice	65.2	4.5	27.7	0.9	0	1.8	5.29	5.40	5.22	0.365
(2) The patients are not happy when I write on the computer during consultation	18.6	16.8	38.1	14.2	3.5	8.8	4.06	4.05	4.07	0.559
(3) I register all my patients on the EMR	27.0	18.9	26.1	18.9	8.1	0.9	4.35	4.47	4.28	0.695
E-learning
(1) Online lectures are a good teaching method	40.5	15.3	35.1	5.4	2.7	0.9	4.83	5.23	4.57	0.072
(2) It was easy to combine the work with the training activities	23.2	11.6	36.6	16.1	4.5	8.0	4.09	4.45	3.85	0.070