A computer literacy scale for newly enrolled nursing college students: development and validation.
BACKGROUND: Increasing application and use of information systems and mobile technologies in the healthcare industry require increasing nurse competency in computer use. Computer literacy is defined as basic computer skills, whereas computer competency is defined as the computer skills necessary to...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Nursing Research (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins) Vol. 19; no. 4; pp. 305 - 318 |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Dec2011
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=108211295&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 108211295 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 16823141 B6TO jtl: Journal of Nursing Research (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins) issn: 16823141 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2011 vid: 19 iid: 4 pid: 433 pub: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins place: Baltimore, Maryland artinfo: ui: 108211295 108211295 2011402705 10.1097/jnr.0b013e318236d03f NLM22089656 108211295 ppf: 305 ppct: 13 formats: tig: atl: A computer literacy scale for newly enrolled nursing college students: development and validation. aug: au: Lin, Tung-Cheng affil: Department of Information Management, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences. sug: subj: Computer Literacy Evaluation Instrument Construction Instrument Validation Students, Nursing Adult Chi Square Test Coefficient alpha Colleges and Universities Content Validity Convenience Sample Criterion-Related Validity Descriptive Statistics Discriminant Validity Factor Analysis Female Goodness of Fit Chi Square Test Human Male One-Way Analysis of Variance Post Hoc Analysis Pretest-Posttest Design Questionnaires Scales Summated Rating Scaling T-Tests Taiwan Validation Studies Adult: 19-44 years Female Male ab: BACKGROUND: Increasing application and use of information systems and mobile technologies in the healthcare industry require increasing nurse competency in computer use. Computer literacy is defined as basic computer skills, whereas computer competency is defined as the computer skills necessary to accomplish job tasks. Inadequate attention has been paid to computer literacy and computer competency scale validity. PURPOSE: This study developed a computer literacy scale with good reliability and validity and investigated the current computer literacy of newly enrolled students to develop computer courses appropriate to students' skill levels and needs. METHODS: This study referenced Hinkin's process to develop a computer literacy scale. Participants were newly enrolled first-year undergraduate students, with nursing or nursing-related backgrounds, currently attending a course entitled Information Literacy and Internet Applications. Researchers examined reliability and validity using confirmatory factor analysis. RESULTS: The final version of the developed computer literacy scale included six constructs (software, hardware, multimedia, networks, information ethics, and information security) and 22 measurement items. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the scale possessed good content validity, reliability, convergent validity, and discriminant validity. This study also found that participants earned the highest scores for the network domain and the lowest score for the hardware domain. CONCLUSIONS/IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: With increasing use of information technology applications, courses related to hardware topic should be increased to improve nurse problem-solving abilities. This study recommends that emphases on word processing and network-related topics may be reduced in favor of an increased emphasis on database, statistical software, hospital information systems, and information ethics. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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