Hajesmaeel-Gohari Sadrieh, Sheikhtaheri Abbas, Dinari Fatemeh, Farokhzadian Jamileh, Bahaadinbeigy Kambiz, Moulaei Khadijeh
Medical Informatics Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
Department of Health Information Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2024 Dec 2;24(1):369. doi: 10.1186/s12911-024-02792-w.
mHealth apps are widely utilized in healthcare. To guarantee their usefulness and usability, it is crucial to assess them using a reliable scale tailored specifically for mHealth apps and their users.
The aim of this study is the psychometric assessment of the provider version of mHealth App Usability Questionnaire (MAUQ) in Persian language.
The Persian translations of standalone and interactive versions of the MAUQ for healthcare providers underwent validation. Face validity, content validity, and factor analysis were conducted to validate these two versions. Ten nurses evaluated face validity, while ten nursing and psychometric analysis experts assessed content validity. Factor analysis involved 98 nurses. The reliability of the questionnaires was measured using Cronbach's alpha.
The translated questionnaires were validated, confirming both face validity (impact score ≥ 2.40) and content validity (k*≥0.66). The Persian version of the MAUQ for standalone applications had 18 items across two dimensions: easy to use and usefulness (11 items) and user interface and satisfaction (7 items). The Persian version of the MAUQ for interactive applications had 21 items across three dimensions: easy to use (4 items), usefulness (5 items), and user interface and satisfaction (12 items). Both standalone and interactive versions demonstrated high internal consistency with a Cronbach's alpha of 0.96.
The psychometric assessment of the provider version of MAUQ in Persian language has the reliability and validity required to assess mHealth applications usability.
移动健康应用程序在医疗保健领域得到广泛应用。为确保其有用性和可用性,使用专门为移动健康应用程序及其用户量身定制的可靠量表对其进行评估至关重要。
本研究旨在对波斯语版的医疗服务提供者版移动健康应用程序可用性问卷(MAUQ)进行心理测量评估。
对医疗服务提供者使用的MAUQ独立版和交互式版本的波斯语翻译进行了验证。进行了表面效度、内容效度和因子分析以验证这两个版本。十名护士评估了表面效度,而十名护理和心理测量分析专家评估了内容效度。因子分析涉及98名护士。使用克朗巴赫α系数测量问卷的信度。
翻译后的问卷得到验证,确认了表面效度(影响得分≥2.40)和内容效度(k*≥0.66)。波斯语版独立应用程序的MAUQ有18个项目,分为两个维度:易用性和有用性(11个项目)以及用户界面和满意度(7个项目)。波斯语版交互式应用程序的MAUQ有21个项目,分为三个维度:易用性(4个项目)、有用性(5个项目)以及用户界面和满意度(12个项目)。独立版和交互式版本均显示出较高的内部一致性,克朗巴赫α系数为0.96。
波斯语版医疗服务提供者版MAUQ的心理测量评估具有评估移动健康应用程序可用性所需的信度和效度。