To promote awareness of the website the government launched an advertisement campaign: " It's Worth Knowing".
Although all other variables on doctor patient relationship were not significant, whenever included among the regressors, the gender match between the GP and the patient predicts higher awareness of the website ratings, with a noticeable effect as evident by the reported value of the OR.
Separately, the Cabinet Office has confirmed that it is working with Google, the Advertising Standards Agency and the consumer group Which? to raise consumer awareness of copycat websites.
25 As for the UK, our study confirms that not only awareness of rating websites is still limited among a sample of respondents from the general public in London, but awareness and willingness to use per se do not seem a sufficient condition to guarantee active usage.
Low awareness of the BMJ website in Yaoundé University, Cameroon could be to do with provision of material in English, although we do not have specific data on this.
To raise awareness of the project website among MHPs we used three methods: (i) With a local mental health NHS Trust, we used posters, Trust newsletter, personal emails and follow up telephone calls to adult mental health team managers.
Positive correlations with the awareness of doctor-rating websites also hold for respondents who think that those websites are important sources of information, or who see accessibility and financial performances of hospitals as important factors in making decisions regarding where to seek healthcare.
In particular, section A focuses on the awareness of online rating websites, while section B assesses actual usage of online rating websites.
The use and awareness of doctor-rating websites are still quite limited.
"[Our] work has focused heavily on providing information on empowerment through [this] website, raising awareness of the importance of being kind to others through public relations and social media," she wrote.
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