Computer attitude in psychiatric inpatients.
Negative computer attitude has been shown to be a possible co-variable in computerized examinations of psychiatric patients, affecting patient-computer interaction as well as reliability and validity of assessments. It remains still uncertain if the psychological construct of computer attitude can b...
| Publicado en: | Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 1741 - 1753 |
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Elsevier Science
July 2008
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=508077196&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 508077196 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 07475632 JC4 jtl: Computers in Human Behavior issn: 07475632 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: July 2008 vid: 24 iid: 4 pid: 2410 pub: Elsevier Science artinfo: ui: 508077196 10.1016/j.chb.2007.07.006 ppf: 1741 ppct: 12 formats: tig: atl: Computer attitude in psychiatric inpatients. aug: au: Weber, Bernhard Schneider, Barbara Hornung, Stefan Wetterling, Tilman Fritze, Jürgen su: Computers & psychology Attitudes toward technology People with mental illness Attitude (Psychology) sug: subj: Computers & psychology Attitudes toward technology People with mental illness Attitude (Psychology) keyword: Computers -- Psychological aspects -- Tests and scales -- Reliability ab: Negative computer attitude has been shown to be a possible co-variable in computerized examinations of psychiatric patients, affecting patient-computer interaction as well as reliability and validity of assessments. It remains still uncertain if the psychological construct of computer attitude can be dependably measured in acute psychiatric inpatients or whether it is impeded by the effects of mental illness. For that reason a German translation of the Groningen Computer Attitude Scale (GCAS) was evaluated in 160 acute psychiatric inpatients under naturalistic conditions. General test criteria (internal structure, item analysis, internal consistency, split half reliability) to a large extent corresponded to those formerly found in healthy subjects and psychiatric outpatients. The mean GCAS score was calculated as 56.2±10.8 points and a significantly better computer attitude was found in male, better educated and younger patients. Some diverging correlation patterns were found in diagnostic subgroups, indicating a possible minor impact of mental disorder on computer attitude. Overall, the GCAS was found to be a suitable instrument for measuring computer attitude in acute psychiatric inpatients. It should be used in identifying patients with a negative attitude to computers in order to ensure reliability and validity of computerized assessment. Copyright (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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