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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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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 |
author_facet | García del Castillo-Rodríguez, José Antonio 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. |
spellingShingle | Research Article García del Castillo-Rodríguez, José Antonio Ramos-Soler, Irene López-Sánchez, Carmen Quiles-Soler, Carmen 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 |
title_full_unstemmed | Information and communication technologies and quality of life in home confinement: Development and validation of the TICO scale |
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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