Informational and decisional empowerment in online health support communities: Initial psychometric validation of the Cyber Info-Decisional Empowerment Scale (CIDES) and preliminary data from administration of the scale

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2057-2061

  Seçkin, Gül ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cyber patients; Exploratory factor analysis; Information

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYBER INFO DECISIONAL EMPOWERMENT SCALE; EMPOWERMENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; ONLINE SYSTEM; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PEER COUNSELING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TELEMEDICINE; VALIDATION STUDY; VARIMAX ROTATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83555164935     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-011-1249-y     Document Type: Article

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