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Face and contents validity, and feasibility of Healthometer: a Delphi study
L Spång1, E A Thireos, C Lionis
1Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping, Sweden.
Journal of Medical Systems
|April 14, 2000
Summary
Healthometer, an interactive self-health counseling tool, shows satisfactory face validity, content validity, feasibility, and user opinions. This technology offers a promising model for health information systems.
Area of Science:
- Health Informatics
- Medical Systems Research
- Information Society Technologies
Background:
- Healthometer is an interactive instrument for self-mediated health counseling.
- It supports screening, processing, storage, and advisory tasks in a confidential manner.
- Previous reports highlighted its potential in medical systems research and development.
Purpose of the Study:
- To conduct a scientific and operative evaluation of Healthometer.
- To examine the face and content validity, feasibility, and user attitudes.
- To assess the quality of the hardware, wetware, and software components.
Main Methods:
- Descriptive report and evaluation of an interactive health counseling instrument.
- Assessment of face validity, content validity, and feasibility.
- Collection and analysis of user attitudes and opinions.
Main Results:
- All evaluated aspects, including face and content validity, feasibility, and user opinions, were found to be satisfactory.
- The study confirmed the instrument's potential in health information systems.
- Hardware, wetware, and software quality were implicitly satisfactory to achieve these results.
Conclusions:
- Healthometer is a satisfactory and feasible tool for self-mediated health counseling.
- The instrument represents a valuable model within information society technologies for healthcare.
- Further adoption and development are supported by the positive evaluation.