Instrument:

A scale to assess attitudes of healthcare administrators towards the use of e-mail communication between patients and physicians

Implementation
outcome:

Acceptability

Instrument summary:

20-item instrument measuring attitudes of health care adminstirators towards the use of email-communication between patients and physicians

Level of analysis:

Provider

Country of application:

USA

Psychometric quality
(ConPsyCL):

4 / 22

Global reliability
score (COSMIN):

Fair

Global validity
score (COSMIN):

Fair

Responsiveness
score (COSMIN):

Not assessed

Usability score:

Good

20 items

Reference:

Bhor M, Mason HL.

Development and validation of a scale to assess attitudes of health care administrators toward the use of e-mail communication between patients and physicians.

Res Soc Adm Pharm RSAP. 2006;2(4):512–32.

Psychometric quality
(ConPsyCL):

ConPsyCL score:

4 / 22

Reliability (Max 5pts)

Internal consistency (Max 3pts)

1 / 1Item internal consistency
/ Item total correlation

0 / 2Alpha

 

Test-retest or inter-rater (Max 2pts)

0 / 1 Item level

0 / 1 Factor level

 

Validity (Max 5pts)

0 / 1 Content validity

1 / 1 Face validity

0 / 1 Convergent validity

0 / 1 Discriminant validity

1 / 1 Discriminative validity

 

Factor Analysis (Max 12pts)

0 / 1 Adequacy measures

0 / 1 Kaiser criterion

0 / 1 Variance explained
/ Parallel analysis

1 / 1 Main loadings

0 / 4 EFA goodness of fit

0 / 4 CFA Goodness of fit

 

0 / -2 Penalty

Methodological quality:
(COSMIN)

Reliability

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Internal consistency

Fair

Reliability

Not assessed

Measurement error

Not assessed

Global reliability score

Fair

Validity

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Content validity

Excellent

Structural validity

Fair

Hypotheses testing

Not assessed

Cross-cultural validity

Not assessed

Criterion validity

Not assessed

Global validity score

Fair

Responsiveness

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Responsiveness

Not assessed