The Development and Validation of the “Attitudes Towards Digitalization” (Att-Dig) Questionnaire

Daniel Niewrzol, Daniel Niewrzol, Jan Ehlers, Thomas Ostermann

2025

Abstract

Attitudes towards digitalization play a major role in almost all areas of human interaction including the health care system. Unfortunately, existing assessments and respective instruments on attitudes towards digitalization are often negatively framed, while balanced and broader approaches exist only marginally. The aim of this work was therefore to develop an assessment instrument from a self-generated item pool capturing a broad range of aspects of attitudes towards digitalization. Items were answered in an online survey by a total of 214 participants (mean age: 30.8±14.4 years 56,1% female). A principal component analysis was performed and 5 subscales “Digitalisation and Social Life” (5 items, Cronbach's alpha=0.789),” Digitalisation and Loss of Control” (4 items, Cronbach's alpha=0.817), ” Digitalisation, Knowledge and Education” (4 items, Cronbach's alpha=0.791), ” Digitalisation and Gain of freedom” (3 items, Cronbach's alpha=0.749), and ” Digitalisation, Equity and Prosperity” (3 items, Cronbach's alpha=0.699) were extracted covering 63.5% of the item variance, showing a sufficient internal consistency of the subscales. There were significant differences for some of the subscales with regard to gender, age, and education. Only weak and non-significant correlations were found with respect to the subscales “self-efficacy”, “optimism”, and “pessimism” of the SWOP-K9 questionnaire. Thus, in sum, although there is a need for further research, the Att-Dig is a sound survey instrument to economically assess the attitude towards digitalisation. It can be used in different areas of public life and health care and is easy and quick to answer.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Niewrzol D., Ehlers J. and Ostermann T. (2025). The Development and Validation of the “Attitudes Towards Digitalization” (Att-Dig) Questionnaire. In Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-731-3, SciTePress, pages 523-529. DOI: 10.5220/0013152700003911

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf25,
author={Daniel Niewrzol and Jan Ehlers and Thomas Ostermann},
title={The Development and Validation of the “Attitudes Towards Digitalization” (Att-Dig) Questionnaire},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF},
year={2025},
pages={523-529},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013152700003911},
isbn={978-989-758-731-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF
TI - The Development and Validation of the “Attitudes Towards Digitalization” (Att-Dig) Questionnaire
SN - 978-989-758-731-3
AU - Niewrzol D.
AU - Ehlers J.
AU - Ostermann T.
PY - 2025
SP - 523
EP - 529
DO - 10.5220/0013152700003911
PB - SciTePress