AU - Kahouei, M AU - Babamohamadi, H AU - Ghazavi, S AU - Mehdizadeh, J TI - A survey on barriers to access health information resources of nursing care from the perspectives of nurses and nursing students PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - jha JN - jha VO - 15 VI - 49 IP - 49 4099 - http://jha.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1045-en.html 4100 - http://jha.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1045-en.pdf SO - jha 49 AB  -   Introduction: Access to trustworthy health information is one of the most important factors in nursing care. It is important that the nurses be assured of both importance and quality of information resources to access reliable health information. This study was conducted to assess different methods nurses and nursing students apply to access information resources and to assess the inhibiting factors in this respect.   Methods: This descriptive and analytical study was conducted among 412 nurses and nursing students in hospitals affiliated to Semnan University of Medical Sciences and Social Security Organization of Semnan in 2011. A valid and reliable questionnaire was used for collecting data which were then analyzed by frequency distribution, mean, standard deviation, Mann-Whitney and Kruskal – Wallis tests and Chi-Square.   Results: The nurses appeared to have greater tendency than nursing students to use their colleagues’ and patients’ information. They showed less tendency to use information of printed textbooks in clinical decision making. There was a significant difference between demographic profile of the participants and the use of different information resources (p CP - IRAN IN - Semnan- 5 kilometer of Damghan Road- Nursing and Allied health Faculty LG - eng PB - jha PG - 27 PT - Research YR - 2012