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Information and communication technologies and quality of life in home confinement: Development and validation of the TICO scale

The mandatory home confinement of the Spanish population, implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, presents a unique opportunity to study the use and influence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in people’s perception of quality of life during this exceptional situation. Th...

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Autores principales: García del Castillo-Rodríguez, José Antonio, Ramos-Soler, Irene, López-Sánchez, Carmen, Quiles-Soler, Carmen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7643959/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33152033
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241948
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author García del Castillo-Rodríguez, José Antonio
Ramos-Soler, Irene
López-Sánchez, Carmen
Quiles-Soler, Carmen
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Ramos-Soler, Irene
López-Sánchez, Carmen
Quiles-Soler, Carmen
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description The mandatory home confinement of the Spanish population, implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, presents a unique opportunity to study the use and influence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in people’s perception of quality of life during this exceptional situation. This article adapts and validates a psychometric scale designed to identify and measure the main dimensions of the Quality of Life construct perceived through ICT use. To this end, an exploratory and transversal study has been carried out in Spain on a sample of 2,346 participants. Data processing has been carried out with SPSS and EQS. The results provide evidence of the reliability and psychometric quality on the scale, which exhibits adequate consistency that facilitates its application. The confirmatory factor analysis showed a hierarchical model of three correlated factors that account for the dimensions “Satisfaction with life”, “Emotional support” and “Social support”, which have enough correlation to measure the personal perception of quality of life associated with ICT use and are consistent with previous psychometric studies. The results of the TICO scale indicate that more than 70% of the sample feel ICT have united their family during home confinement and more than 45% experience happy feelings when they use ICT. In home confinement, ICT use has improved users’ quality of life, mainly their satisfaction with life and social and family support.
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spelling pubmed-76439592020-11-16 Information and communication technologies and quality of life in home confinement: Development and validation of the TICO scale García del Castillo-Rodríguez, José Antonio Ramos-Soler, Irene López-Sánchez, Carmen Quiles-Soler, Carmen PLoS One Research Article The mandatory home confinement of the Spanish population, implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, presents a unique opportunity to study the use and influence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in people’s perception of quality of life during this exceptional situation. This article adapts and validates a psychometric scale designed to identify and measure the main dimensions of the Quality of Life construct perceived through ICT use. To this end, an exploratory and transversal study has been carried out in Spain on a sample of 2,346 participants. Data processing has been carried out with SPSS and EQS. The results provide evidence of the reliability and psychometric quality on the scale, which exhibits adequate consistency that facilitates its application. The confirmatory factor analysis showed a hierarchical model of three correlated factors that account for the dimensions “Satisfaction with life”, “Emotional support” and “Social support”, which have enough correlation to measure the personal perception of quality of life associated with ICT use and are consistent with previous psychometric studies. The results of the TICO scale indicate that more than 70% of the sample feel ICT have united their family during home confinement and more than 45% experience happy feelings when they use ICT. In home confinement, ICT use has improved users’ quality of life, mainly their satisfaction with life and social and family support. Public Library of Science 2020-11-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7643959/ /pubmed/33152033 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241948 Text en © 2020 García del Castillo-Rodríguez et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Information and communication technologies and quality of life in home confinement: Development and validation of the TICO scale
title Information and communication technologies and quality of life in home confinement: Development and validation of the TICO scale
title_full Information and communication technologies and quality of life in home confinement: Development and validation of the TICO scale
title_fullStr Information and communication technologies and quality of life in home confinement: Development and validation of the TICO scale
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title_short Information and communication technologies and quality of life in home confinement: Development and validation of the TICO scale
title_sort information and communication technologies and quality of life in home confinement: development and validation of the tico scale
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7643959/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33152033
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241948
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