ORCID iD
Abbas Tavakoli https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2527-7017
Document Type
Article
Subject Area(s)
Adult; African Americans (psychology); Aged; Anxiety (psychology); Attitude to Computers; Cross-Sectional Studies; Decision Support Techniques; Factor Analysis, Statistical; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Patient Acceptance of Health Care; Prostatic Neoplasms (psychology); Psychometrics; Reproducibility of Results; Self Efficacy
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
To reliably evaluate the acceptance and use of computer-based prostate cancer decision aids (CBDAs) for African-American men, culturally relevant measures are needed. This study describes the development and initial psychometric evaluation of the 24-item Computer-Based Prostate Cancer Screening Decision Aid Acceptance Scale among 357 African-American men.
METHODS:
Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) with maximum likelihood estimation and polychoric correlations followed by Promax and Varimax rotations. RESULTS: EFA yielded three factors: Technology Use Expectancy and Intention (16 items), Technology Use Anxiety (5 items), and Technology Use Self-Efficacy (3 items) with good to excellent internal consistency reliability at .95, .90, and .85, respectively. The standardized root mean square residual (0.035) indicated the factor structure explained most of the correlations.
CONCLUSIONS:
Findings suggest the three-factor, 24-item Computer-Based Prostate Cancer Screening Decision Aid Acceptance Scale has utility in determining the acceptance and use of CBDAs among African-American men at risk for prostate cancer. Future research is needed to confirm this factor structure among socio-demographically diverse African-Americans.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
Publication Info
BMC Medical Research Methodology, Volume 19, Issue 146, 2019, pages 146-.
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APA Citation
Owens, O., Wooten, N., & Tavakoli, A. (2019). Development and initial psychometric evaluation of the computer-based prostate Cancer screening decision aid acceptance scale for African-American men. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 19(146). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-019-0776-y