Instrument:

The Impact of Health Information Technology (I-HIT) Scale

Implementation
outcome:

Acceptability

Instrument summary:

29-item scale measuring nurses’ satisfaction with Health Information Technology (HIT) applications and tools and nurses' perceptions regarding the ways in which HIT influences interdisciplinary communication and workflow patterns

Level of analysis:

Provider

Country of application:

USA

Psychometric quality
(ConPsyCL):

6 / 22

Global reliability
score (COSMIN):

Excellent

Global validity
score (COSMIN):

Good

Responsiveness
score (COSMIN):

Not assessed

Usability score:

Good

29 items

Reference:

Dykes PC, Hurley A, Cashen M, Bakken S, Duffy ME.

Development and psychometric evaluation of the Impact of Health Information Technology (IHIT) scale.

J Am Med Inform Assoc JAMIA. 2007;14(4):507–14.

Psychometric quality
(ConPsyCL):

ConPsyCL score:

6 / 22

Reliability (Max 5pts)

Internal consistency (Max 3pts)

0 / 1Item internal consistency
/ Item total correlation

1 / 2Alpha

 

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

0 / 1 Item level

0 / 1 Factor level

 

Validity (Max 5pts)

1 / 1 Content validity

1 / 1 Face validity

0 / 1 Convergent validity

0 / 1 Discriminant validity

0 / 1 Discriminative validity

 

Factor Analysis (Max 12pts)

1 / 1 Adequacy measures

1 / 1 Kaiser criterion

1 / 1 Variance explained
/ Parallel analysis

1 / 1 Main loadings

0 / 4 EFA goodness of fit

0 / 4 CFA Goodness of fit

 

-1 / -2 Penalty

Methodological quality:
(COSMIN)

Reliability

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Internal consistency

Excellent

Reliability

Not assessed

Measurement error

Not assessed

Global reliability score

Excellent

Validity

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Content validity

Good

Structural validity

Excellent

Hypotheses testing

Good

Cross-cultural validity

Not assessed

Criterion validity

Excellent

Global validity score

Good

Responsiveness

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Responsiveness

Not assessed