Acceptability Instruments

Acceptability refers to ‘the perception among implementation stakeholders that a given treatment, service, practice, or innovation is agreeable, palatable, or satisfactory’. Commonly used terms: Satisfaction with various aspects of the innovation (e.g. content, complexity, comfort, delivery, and credibility). Proctor et al, 2011

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Acceptability Instruments	Psychometric quality (ConPsyCL)	Validity (COSMIN)	Reliability (COSMIN)	Responsiveness (COSMIN)	Usability
A generic questionnaire to detect physicians’ willingness to implement complex medical interventions	5	Poor	Poor	Not assessed	Good
A questionnaire assessing physicians’ attitudes towards the computerisation of clinical practice	2	Poor	Poor	Not assessed	Good
A questionnaire based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)	3	Fair	Poor	Not assessed	Good
A questionnaire measuring acceptance of creating a nurses’ health monitoring system	3	Poor	Poor	Not assessed	Good
A questionnaire measuring pharmacists and physician’s attitudes to antibiotic policies	2	Poor	Poor	Poor	Good
A questionnaire to measure convenience and satisfaction with a new internet-based tool for oral anticoagulation therapy telecontrol	2	Fair	Poor	Not assessed	Good
A Questionnaire to Measure Perceived Attributes of eHealth Innovations	4	Good	Poor	Not assessed	Good
A rating form measuring the satisfaction of the Telephone Assessment and Skill-Building Kit (TASK) intervention	3	Excellent	Poor	Not assessed	Excellent
A scale to assess attitudes of healthcare administrators towards the use of e-mail communication between patients and physicians	4	Fair	Fair	Not assessed	Good
A survey measuring acceptance of BelRAI, a web-based system enabling person-centred recording and data sharing across care settings	2	Poor	Fair	Not assessed	Good
A survey measuring attitudes towards biomedical HIV prevention	2	Fair	Poor	Not assessed	Good
A survey measuring satisfaction with electronic health records	6	Poor	Poor	Not assessed	Good
Acceptability of Continuous Glucose Monitoring Devices (ACGMD) questionnaire	2	Fair	Not assessed	Not assessed	Adequate
Acceptability of Intervention Measure (AIM)	8	Poor	Poor	Not assessed	Excellent
An instrument assessing mobile technology acceptability in diabetes self-management	4	Poor	Poor	Not assessed	Good
Cancer Therapy Satisfaction Questionnaire (CTSQ)	2	Poor	Poor	Poor	Good
CARDIOSATIS-Team scale	6	Poor	Fair	Not assessed	Good
Diffusion of Innovation in Long-Term Care (DOI-LTC) measurement battery-version for certified nursing assistants	2	Excellent	Poor	Not assessed	Good
Diffusion of Innovation in Long-Term Care (DOI-LTC) measurement battery-version for licensed nurses	2	Excellent	Poor	Not assessed	Adequate
Electronic Health Record Nurse Satisfaction (EHRNS) survey	3	Poor	Poor	Not assessed	Good
End user computing satisfaction (EUCS) survey	6	Poor	Poor	Not assessed	Good
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Questionnaire —Swedish version	2	Poor	Poor	Not assessed	Good
Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS)	5	Excellent	Not assessed	Not assessed	Good
Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS-50) —Turkish version	0	Poor	Poor	Not assessed	Adequate
Evidence-Based Practice Questionnaire (EBPQ)	7	Fair	Fair	Not assessed	Good
Evidence-Based Practice Questionnaire (EBPQ-J)—Japanese version	4	Fair	Good	Not assessed	Good
Healthcare professionals’ intention to use an adverse event reporting system	6	Poor	Fair	Not assessed	Good
Instrument for assessing clinicians’ perceptions about use of computerised protocols	3	Fair	Fair	Not assessed	Good
Ottawa acceptability of decision rules instrument (OADRI)	3	Poor	Excellent	Not assessed	Good
Perinatal Depression (PND) Attitudes and Screening Acceptability Questionnaire (PASAQ)	5	Poor	Poor	Not assessed	Good
Physiotherapy Mobile Acceptance Questionnaire (PTMAQ)	9	Poor	Poor	Not assessed	Good
Practitioner Feedback Questionnaire	4	Poor	Fair	Not assessed	Good
Questionnaire of three scoring items for current treatment satisfaction and factors of both clinical trial participation motivations and technology acceptance model	0	Not assessed	Poor	Not assessed	Good
The Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC-10) Scale—short version	2	Poor	Poor	Not assessed	Good
The Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC-35) Scale	4	Poor	Fair	Not assessed	Good
The Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC-45)	4	Poor	Fair	Not assessed	Good
The Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS)—Greek version	5	Poor	Fair	Not assessed	Good
The Impact of Health Information Technology (I-HIT) Scale	6	Good	Excellent	Not assessed	Good
The Mind the Gap Scale – adolescent version	7	Excellent	Excellent	Not assessed	Good
The Mind the Gap Scale – parent version	7	Excellent	Excellent	Not assessed	Good
The Person-Centred Health Care for Older Adults (PCHCOA) Survey	3	Excellent	Excellent	Not assessed	Good