Adaptation of e-health impact questionnaire into Turkish: a validity and reliability study

TL;DR

This study adapts a questionnaire about e-health into Turkish and confirms its reliability and validity for use in Turkish populations.

Contribution

The paper presents a validated Turkish version of the e-health impact questionnaire for assessing perceptions of health-related websites.

Findings

The adapted questionnaire showed acceptable fit indices for both parts of the survey.

The study provides evidence for the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the e-health impact questionnaire.

Abstract

e-Health refers to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for health-related services. e-Health aims to distribute scarce resources to areas in need more efficiently and to reduce the cost of health care delivery. However, although the health information on the web-based internet is sometimes provided by specialist and similar health professionals, it should be stated that the opposite can also happen. In this study, it is aimed to adapt the e-health impact questionnaire, which was developed to allow comparison of two or more websites containing health information, into Turkish, and to conduct a reliability and validity study.

This study is in methodological research design. The first part consists of items containing “general attitudes towards health-related websites”. This section consists of 11 items, two of which are sub-dimensions. The second part consists of items containing “opinions about the website reviewed”. This section contains a total of 26 items, three of which are sub-dimensions. SPPS and AMOS package programs were used in the analysis of the data.

It is seen that 18% of the individuals participating in the study (n = 388) were male and 82% were female. While 85.1% of them are studying or have studied at the undergraduate level, 14.9% of them are in postgraduate education. Part 1 of the questionnaire are as follows: (χ2/df) = 3.64 (χ2 = 156,843/df = 43); RMSEA = 0.08; GFI = 0.93; AGFI = 0.89; CFI = 0.92; TLI = 0.90; PGFI = 0.61 and NFI = 0.90. Part 2 are as follows: 4.81 (χ2/df) (χ2 = 1423.541/df = 296); RMSEA = 0.099; GFI = 0.75; AGFI = 0.70; CFI = 0.82; TLI = 0.80; PGFI = 0.63 and NFI = 0.79.

This study suggests using this instrument to survey perceptions of e-health technology in Turkish people.

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