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Developing and validating a nursing website evaluation questionnaire.

Sing-Ling Tsai1, Sin-Kuo Chai

  • 1Nursing, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. sltsai@vghtpe.gov.tw

Journal of Advanced Nursing
|February 11, 2005
PubMed
Summary

A new nursing website evaluation questionnaire was developed and validated. This tool ensures the quality of online health information for both the public and healthcare professionals.

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Area of Science:

  • Health Informatics
  • Nursing Research
  • Web Science

Background:

  • Growing use of the internet for health information by the public and professionals.
  • Need for reliable methods to evaluate the quality of online health resources.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a comprehensive evaluation questionnaire for nursing websites.
  • To provide a standardized tool for assessing the quality of online nursing information.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a 32-item questionnaire assessing content, usability, and technical aspects.
  • Validation using 24 selected nursing websites from the US and Taiwan.
  • Analysis of data from 120 Master's-level participants using reliability and factor analysis.

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Main Results:

  • The questionnaire demonstrated good internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0.93, KR-20 = 0.85).
  • Factor analysis identified four key dimensions: content truth, accessibility/convenience, speed/connection, and overall impression.

Conclusions:

  • The developed nursing website evaluation questionnaire possesses strong construct validity and internal consistency.
  • The validated tool is suitable for evaluating the quality of nursing websites.