Table 2.

Belief factor and loadings

	Item	Loadings
Factor	Mean (SD)	1	2	3	4
Factor 1: Improve care and communication
Improve your access to client medical/physical health records	4.01 (0.86)	0.926	0.062	0.015	−0.099
Improve coordination of care among all providers working with the same client	4.07 (0.92)	0.925	0.073	0.043	0.013
Provide more complete information to help with your diagnoses and treatment planning	3.89 (0.98)	0.916	0.114	0.023	0.024
Lead to more complete client information	3.85 (0.96)	0.854	0.102	−0.088	−0.036
Improve your ability to track medication history	3.93 (0.89)	0.797	−0.035	0.085	−0.001
Improve your communication with other providers	3.81 (0.96)	0.768	−0.046	0.026	0.058
Streamline your access to client information/records	3.80 (0.94)	0.740	−0.069	0.008	0.094
Reduce duplicating client evaluations, assessments, or tests that have already been conducted by other providers	3.83 (1.03)	0.609	0.097	−0.001	0.200
Improve the quality of care your clients receive	3.25 (1.09)	0.423	−0.093	−0.035	0.326
Improve your clients' safety	3.07 (1.07)	0.400	0.091	−0.211	0.266
Factor 2: Add cost and time burdens
Be difficult because your practice lacks the technological expertise to implement and maintain	3.08 (1.24)	0.148	0.838	0.052	0.069
Be time consuming for your practice to implement	3.40 (1.13)	0.078	0.818	−0.014	−0.063
Result in extra work for you on a daily basis	3.15 (1.11)	0.015	0.681	0.012	−0.142
Cost your practice too much to implement	3.24 (1.06)	0.068	0.676	0.212	0.014
Disrupt your own work flow	2.88 (1.10)	−0.076	0.671	0.036	−0.101
Require more training than you have time for	2.95 (1.10)	−0.053	0.662	0.141	0.083
Be resisted by staff at your practice	3.56 (1.13)	0.082	0.488	0.215	−0.048
Be difficult for you due to your apprehensions about computer technology	2.47 (1.23)	−0.027	0.465	0.226	0.130
Increase the time your practice spends on transcriptions	3.09 (1.08)	−0.012	0.449	0.105	−0.110
Factor 3: Present access and vulnerability concerns
Be misused by third party payers	3.48 (1.02)	0.160	0.014	0.727	−0.172
Increase your legal vulnerability	3.47 (1.04)	0.011	0.026	0.655	−0.133
Force you to use an overly templated behavioral health record	3.30 (1.02)	0.011	0.168	0.629	−0.011
Compromise your professional ethics	2.76 (1.15)	−0.271	0.076	0.581	0.061
Make you become too reliant on technology that could crash	3.32 (1.14)	−0.017	0.265	0.535	0.075
Be resisted by clients	3.13 (0.99)	−0.040	0.194	0.461	−0.050
Disrupt your relationships with your clients	2.58 (1.02)	−0.329	0.244	0.452	0.131
Be impractical because behavioral health information cannot be captured by checkboxes and dropdown lists	3.13 (1.15)	−0.103	0.261	0.441	0.020
Result in more data entry errors in client records	2.97 (0.93)	−0.069	0.309	0.408	0.039
Improve privacy and security of confidential client information	2.52 (1.10)	−0.036	0.175	−0.611	0.519
Factor 4: Impact workflow and control
Improve your ability to control who has access to your clients' information	2.53 (1.15)	−0.109	0.224	−0.372	0.715
Improve your practice's office work flow	3.14 (1.06)	0.206	−0.277	0.156	0.575
Improve your practice's billing accuracy	3.02 (1.03)	0.188	0.132	−0.067	0.529
Create more time for client care	2.94 (1.10)	0.077	−0.319	0.161	0.523
Improve privacy and security of confidential client information	2.52 (1.10)	−0.036	0.175	−0.611	0.519
Improve your clients' satisfaction with the admissions process	3.06 (1.00)	0.225	−0.073	−0.030	0.490
Reduce the time you spend on paperwork	2.94 (1.15)	0.121	−0.331	0.092	0.474

Likert scaled responses were: 1=strongly disagree; 2=disagree; 3=neither agree nor disagree; 4=agree; 5=strongly agree.