Psychometric evaluation of a handheld decision support attitudes scale
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Rebecca Schnall1, Olivia Velez, Joann Dilone
1Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, New York, USA.
AMIA ... Annual Symposium Proceedings. AMIA Symposium
|August 13, 2008
Abstract:
The authors evaluated the psychometrics of a 14-item scale designed to assess attitudes about handheld decision support software. In a sample of 103 nursing students, a principal components factor analysis resulted in three factors that explained 55.1% of the variance. Internal consistency reliability ranged from .71-.83.
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