Reliability and validity test of technophobia scale in inpatients of a Class A tertiary hospital of traditional Chinese medicine
Objective To test the reliability and validity of the technophobia scale in the inpatients in a Class A tertiary hospital of traditional Chinese medicine.Methods Patients hospitalized in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine from December 2022 to July 2023 were selected as the survey objects by convenience sampling,and were investigated by general information questionnaire and technophobia scale,and the reliability and validity were analyzed by SPSS.Results Item analysis:the discrimination of the technophobia scale was good(t=57.069,P<0.001),and the trend of each item of the scale was basically consistent with that of the total scale(r=0.752-0.855,P<0.001).Reliability:the Cronbach's αcoefficient of the technophobia scale was 0.956,the split-half reliability of TS was 0.851,and the Cronbach's αcoefficient and split-half reliability of the three dimensions of techno-fear,techno-anxiety and privacy security concern were all greater than 0.9.Structural validity:exploratory factor analysis extracted three common factors,and the cumulative variance contribution rate was 87.988%.Results of confirmatory factor analysis:Chi-square to degrees of freedom ratio of model fit was 2.953,comparative fit index(CFI)was 0.970,normed fit index(NFI)was 0.955,non-normed fit index(NNFI)was 0.962,incremental fit index(IFI)was 0.970,and Tucker-Lewis index(TLI)was 0.962.Convergent validity:more than 60%of the factor load results of the items corresponding to the three dimensions of the technophobia scale were all greater than 0.7,the composite reliability values were all greater than 0.9,and the average extraction variance values were all greater than 0.8.Conclusion The technophobia scale has good reliability and validity in the application of inpatients in a Class A tertiary hospital of traditional Chinese medicine,and therefore,it can be used as an evaluation tool for the technophobia in inpatients.