• Abdullah A Almojaibel, Niki Munk, Lynda T Goodfellow, Thomas F Fisher, Kristine K Miller, Amber R Comer, Tamilyn Bakas, and Michael D Justiss.
• Department of Respiratory Care, College of Applied Medical Sciences, University of Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. amojaibel@iau.edu.sa.
• Respir Care. 2019 Sep 1; 64 (9): 1057-1064.

BackgroundUsing telehealth in pulmonary rehabilitation (telerehabilitation) is a new field of health-care practice. To successfully implement a telerehabilitation program, measures of acceptance of this new type of program need to be assessed among potential users. The purpose of this study was to develop a scale to measure acceptance of using telerehabilitation by health-care practitioners and patients.MethodsThree objectives were met (a) constructing a modified scale of the technology acceptance model, (b) judging the items for content validity, and (c) judging the scale for face validity. Nine experts agreed to participate and evaluate item relevance to theoretical definitions of domains. To establish face validity, 7 health-care practitioners and 5 patients were interviewed to provide feedback about the scale's clarity and ease of reading.ResultsThe final items were divided into 2 scales that reflected the health-care practitioner and patient responses. Each scale included 3 subscales: perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and behavioral intention.ConclusionsThe 2 scales, each with 3 subscales, exhibited evidence of content validity and face validity. The 17-item telerehabilitation acceptance scale for health-care practitioners and the 13-item telerehabilitation acceptance scale among patients warrant further psychometric testing as valuable measures for pulmonary rehabilitation programs.Copyright © 2019 by Daedalus Enterprises.

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