Evaluation of Validity and Reliability of the Turkish Translation of the Digital Health Readiness Questionaire in Different Chronic Diseases

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines digital health as the field of knowledge and application related to any aspect of the adoption of digital technology in the stages of improvement. The combination of digital health with technology brings about a new transformation in digital media. This transformation allows for the development of communication and information in health services, the ability to conduct health-related research on digital media and the evaluation of this data. The ease of access to information and the provision of a timely feedback mechanism in the face of problems have enabled the spread of digital health systems, and have also enabled chronic disease management and epidemic disease monitoring.

It is recommended that the term digital readiness be used to cover the combination of digital access and use, digital literacy and digital health literacy. Digital health readiness is also defined as the main determinant of health and is thought to contribute to the improvement of health processes with the development of digital health literacy and to be a useful solution against health problems that may arise in the follow-up of chronic diseases.

Although there are tools in the literature that evaluate digital health readiness, there is no Turkish assessment tool that facilitates the follow-up of non-communicable chronic diseases. Therefore, the aim of our study is to evaluate the translation, validity, and reliability of the Digital Health Readiness Questionaire into Turkish in individuals with chronic non-infectious diseases.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Non-Communicable Chronic Diseases; Validation Studies; Digital Health; Survey and Questionnaire
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Survey using a questionnaire.; Other: Survey using a questionnaire.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Estimated): 200

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Busra Ulker Eksi; Phone Number: +905382604569; Email: bbusraulker@gmail.com
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Buket Akinci; Email: barbuket@hotmail.com

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Istanbul, Turkey
    • Recruiting
    • Biruni University
    • Contact: Busra Ulker Eksi; Phone Number: +905382604569; Email: bbusraulker@gmail.com

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

This study aimed to include 200 participants who applied as patients to Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medical Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine, Diabetes and Obesity Polyclinic and Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery between September 2024 and August 2025 and met the inclusion criteria, based on the ethics committee approvals obtained from Biruni University Clinical Research Ethics Committee, decision number 2015-KAEK-68-22-01 dated 28.07.2022, and the ethics committee approvals obtained from Biruni University Non-Interventional Clinical Research Ethics Committee, decision number 2023/85-65 dated 22.12.2023.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• The study will include people over the age of 18, native Turkish speakers, literate, obese, diabetic, cardiovascular and respiratory patients.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Individuals with insufficient cooperation (Mini Mental Test score <24) and any cognitive problems that may prevent the administration of the survey will be excluded from the study.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Translation of the digital health readiness questionnaire	Translation of the digital health readiness questionnaire into Turkish and application on the sample	1 month

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
the validity and reliability of the survey in Turkish	To evaluate the translation, validity and reliability of the Digital Health Readiness Survey into Turkish in individuals with chronic non-communicable diseases.	11 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Istanbul Galata University
• Collaborators: Biruni University; Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 15, 2024
• Primary Completion (Estimated): April 15, 2025
• Study Completion (Estimated): September 15, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 30, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 30, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): September 3, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 25, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 5, 2025
• Last Verified: February 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: digital health; Digital Health Readiness Questionaire
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Disease Attributes; Noncommunicable Diseases; Chronic Disease
• Other Study ID Numbers: AA1234

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No