ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Digit. Health
Sec. Health Communications and Behavior Change
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2025.1538475
This article is part of the Research TopicDigital Health Past, Present, and FutureView all 34 articles
Adaptation of e-Health Impact Questionnaire into Turkish: A Validity and Reliability Study
Provisionally accepted
Mustafa Kafes*
Serife Didem Kaya- Necmettin Erbakan University, Karatay, Türkiye
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Introduction: e-Health refers to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for health-related services. e-Health aims to distribute scarce resources to areas in need more efficiently and to reduce the cost of health care delivery. However, although the health information on the web-based internet is sometimes provided by specialist and similar health professionals, it should be stated that the opposite can also happen. In this study, it is aimed to adapt the e-health impact questionnaire, which was developed to allow comparison of two or more websites containing health information, into Turkish, and to conduct a reliability and validity study. Methods: This study is in methodological research design. The first part consists of items containing "general attitudes towards health-related websites". This section consists of 11 items, two of which are sub-dimensions. The second part consists of items containing "opinions about the website reviewed". This section contains a total of 26 items, three of which are sub-dimensions. SPPS and AMOS package programs were used in the analysis of the data.It is seen that 18% of the individuals participating in the study (n=388) were male and 82% were female. While 85.1% of them are studying or have studied at the undergraduate level, 14.9% of them are in postgraduate education. Part 1 of the questionnaire are as follows: (χ2/df) = 3.64 (χ2=156,843/ df=43); RMSEA = 0.08; GFI = 0.93; AGFI = 0.89; CFI = 0.92; TLI = 0.90; PGFI = 0.61 and NFI = 0.90. Part 2 are as follows: 4.81 (χ2/df) (χ2=1423.541/df=296); RMSEA = 0.099; GFI = 0.75; AGFI = 0.70; CFI = 0.82; TLI = 0.80; PGFI = 0.63 and NFI = 0.79. Conclusion: This study suggests using this instrument to survey perceptions of e-health technology in Turkish people.
Keywords: Turkish, e-health, Questionnaire adaptation, digital health access, scale validation, cultural adaptation
Received: 02 Dec 2024; Accepted: 04 Sep 2025.
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* Correspondence: Mustafa Kafes, mkafes@erbakan.edu.tr
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