Areti Efthymiou|Nicos Middleton|Andreas Charalambous|Evridiki Papastavrou
Adapting the eHealth Literacy Scale for Carers of People With Chronic Diseases (eHeals-Carer) in a Sample of Greek and Cypriot Carers of People With Dementia: Reliability and Validation Study
Cyprus University of Technology|Cyprus University of Technology|University of Turku|Cyprus University of Technology|Cyprus University of Technology
population ages many people need longterm care according recent report alzheimers disease international karolinska institute 84 people dementia cared home 16 nursing homes several webbased interventions developed assist work carers home measuring levels electronic health ehealth literacy top priority facilitate inclusion population develop training programs enhance ehealth literacy skillsthis study aimed adapt ehealth literacy scale eheals carers people dementia speak greek native language live greece cyprus test reliability validity scale carersthe content validity ehealth literacy scale carers people chronic diseases ehealscarer assessed expert panel n10 descriptive study facetoface interviews among 101 primary carers people dementia conducted addition ehealscarer assess perceived ehealth literacy participants responded brief questionnaire regarding characteristics internet use provided sociodemographic data internal consistency tool construct validity via exploratory factor analysis efa exploredthe mean itemlevel content validity index cvi scalelevel cvi average 093 participants mostly women 752 76101 aged less 60 years 673 68101 secondary education internal consistency estimated cronbach alpha 83 two factors extracted efa information seeking questions 1 5 factor 1 evaluation questions 6 8 factor 2ehealscarer first perceived ehealth literacy tool adapted carers people dementia use webbased services available carers could help improve health care system long term greece cyprus lack services improving digital skills carers could provide means support home improve care provisionrr2102196resprot8080