Everyday technology use among older adults in Sweden and Portugal

Patomella, Ann‐Helen; Kottorp, Anders; Ferreira, Marta; Rosenberg, Lena; Uppgard, Brittmari; Nygård, Louise

doi:10.1080/11038128.2017.1311940

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“…This contributes to validity evidence of internal construct and fairness in testing in relation to ETUQ, as people with variations in gender and/or diagnosis can be evaluated with the ETUQ with minimal bias on the ETUQ ability measures generated. The findings from this study therefore contributes to the growing evidence-base of the ETUQ as a valid tool to explore and measure everyday technology use among a variety of people [13,14,25,40,41].…”

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“…Although no or minimal ETUQ item DIF has been found when comparing matched samples across contexts [40,44], the generic hierarchy may still not be generalized to other contexts without caution. Finally, the use of self-report when gathering information about everyday technology use especially among people with cognitive impairments can be discussed as a limitation in this and other studies using the ETUQ [13,14,25,40,41].…”

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Gender and diagnostic impact on everyday technology use: a differential item functioning (DIF) analysis of the Everyday Technology Use Questionnaire (ETUQ)

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Lund

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Disability and Rehabilitation

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The findings support a stable hierarchy of everyday technology challenge in home and community that can facilitate planning of an accessible and inclusive society from a technological departure point. Implications for Rehabilitation The ability to manage everyday technology is increasingly important for participation in everyday activities at home and in the community for people with and without disabilities. This study demonstrates that differences in perceived challenges in using various everyday technologies across gender and diagnosis are minimal. The findings provide evidence of no or minor systematic bias in testing when using the Everyday Technology Use Questionnaire in clinical practice and research. Empirical knowledge about the perceived challenge of specific everyday technologies of people with variations in gender or diagnosis is still sparse, hence this study can inspire practice and future research.

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Gender and diagnostic impact on everyday technology use: a differential item functioning (DIF) analysis of the Everyday Technology Use Questionnaire (ETUQ)

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Malinowsky

Lund

et al. 2018

Disability and Rehabilitation

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“…The ETUQ has shown validity in different countries among groups of people with and without cognitive impairments; inter-rater and test-retest reliability in Denmark (Kaptain et al, 2019), rating scale function, internal scale validity and person response validity in Sweden (Nygård et al, 2012;Patomella et al, 2017), Japan (Malinowsky et al, 2015) and Portugal (Patomella et al, 2017), with no evidence of testing bias between Sweden, the United States, and England (Wallcook et al, 2020).…”

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Kaleidoscopic associations between life outside home and the technological environment that shape occupational injustice as revealed through cross-sectional statistical modelling

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Journal of Occupational Science

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Background: Everyday life outside home and accessing a variety of places are central to occupation. Technology is ever more taken for granted, even outside home, and for some may culminate in occupational injustice. This study aims to explore the association between everyday technologies (ET), particularly out of home, and the number of places older adults with and without dementia go to, in rural and urban environments. Method: The Everyday Technology Use Questionnaire, and Participation in Activities and Places Outside Home Questionnaire, were administered with 128 people in England. Six logistic regression models explored the association between ET and the number of places people went to, with other demographic factors (i.e., rurality, diagnosis, deprivation). Results: The amount of out of home technologies a person perceived relevant and relative levels of neighbourhood deprivation were most persistently associated with the number of places people went to. Associations with ability to use technology, diagnosis, and education were more tentative. In no model was rurality significant. All models explained a low proportion of variance and lacked sensitivity to predict the outcome. Conclusion: For a minority of people, perceptions of the technological environment are associated with other personal and environmental dimensions. Viewed kaleidoscopically, these associations assemble to generate an impermanent, fragmented view of occupational injustice that may jeopardise opportunities outside home. However, there will be other influential factors not identified in this study. Greater attention to the intersections between specific environmental dimensions may deepen understanding of how modifications can be made to deliver occupational justice.

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“…The ETUQ has been translated into several languages (e.g. English, Japanese, Danish, Portuguese) and these versions have also been shown to demonstrate good psychometric qualities [4,7,8]. Moreover, in a sample with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD [4] the Danish version of the ETUQ has been confirmed to have an excellent interrater and test-retest reliability.…”

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Test-retest reliability of the short version of the everyday technology use questionnaire (S-ETUQ)

Malinowsky

Nygård

Pantzar

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Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy

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Background: Everyday technologies (ET) such as smart phones, and internet banking are increasingly incorporated into daily activities. Therefore, valid assessments are needed to identify ability in ET use and to design and evaluate interventions. Aims: To evaluate and compare the stability over time (test-retest reliability) of measures generated with the short version of the Everyday Technology Use Questionnaire (S-ETUQ) in older adults with cognitive impairment or mild dementia. Materials and Methods: Data was collected with S-ETUQ at two occasions (m ¼ 20.9 days in between) in a sample of (n ¼ 73) older adults with cognitive impairment of different origin (n ¼ 38) or mild dementia (n ¼ 35). Stability of each participant's S-ETUQ measure was examined using standardised difference z-comparisons. The test-retest reliability coefficient of the S-ETUQ measures was determined by Intraclass Correlation Coefficients. Comparisons were performed using Mann-Whitney u-tests. Results: The S-ETUQ measures were statistically stable between the two occasions. Hence, the group of persons with cognitive impairment demonstrated slightly higher stability and fewer differences compared to the group with mild dementia. The ICCs (0.82-0.90) indicated good to excellent agreement. Conclusions: S-ETUQ can be used with older people with cognitive impairments of varying degree to gather reliable and precise information regarding their use of ET.

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Everyday technology use among older adults in Sweden and Portugal

Abstract: The results support that the ETUQ is a valid assessment for measuring the relevance of and perceived difficulty of ET use and is able to detect differences and similarities between older adults in these European countries in relation to ET use in the home and society.

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Gender and diagnostic impact on everyday technology use: a differential item functioning (DIF) analysis of the Everyday Technology Use Questionnaire (ETUQ)

Gender and diagnostic impact on everyday technology use: a differential item functioning (DIF) analysis of the Everyday Technology Use Questionnaire (ETUQ)

Kaleidoscopic associations between life outside home and the technological environment that shape occupational injustice as revealed through cross-sectional statistical modelling

Test-retest reliability of the short version of the everyday technology use questionnaire (S-ETUQ)

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