Table 3.
Main factor analysis results
| Spain | Colombia | Bolivia | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perceived usefulness of ICTs in clinical practice | Optimism | Perceived usefulness of ICTs in clinical practice | Optimism | Perceived usefulness of ICTs in clinical practice | Optimism | |
| Variables | ||||||
| Looking up medical or health-related information on the Internet improves the doctor-patient relationship | 0.577 | 0.852 | 0.680 | |||
| Looking up medical or health-related information on the Internet leads to doubts about the health care professional's knowledge | 0.747 | 0.809 | 0.705 | |||
| Looking up medical or health-related information on the Internet improves knowledge of the patient and facilitates his or her treatment | 0.765 | 0.809 | 0.735 | |||
| The existence of computerised data allows the evolution of the patient's clinical status to be viewed | 0.946 | 0.772 | 0.788 | |||
| I am in favour of creating a single computerised medical history for each patient, which can be accessed by any health care professional regardless of the centre where the patient is attended | 0.943 | 0.785 | 0.844 | |||
| With excessive ICT use, there is greater control of errors | 0.862 | 0.639 | 0.783 | |||
| In most cases, computerisation and ICT use in the field of health care minimise bureaucracy and have a major impact on improved clinical practice | 0.703 | 0.770 | 0.605 | |||
| % variance explained | 0.57788 | 0.15195 | 0.15521 | 0.47019 | 0.42973 | 0.14720 |
| Eigenvalue | 4.0451 | 1.06362 | 1.08644 | 3.29133 | 3.00810 | 1.03041 |
| Cronbach's alpha | 0.811 | 0.874 | 0.891 | 0.877 | ||
| Correlation matrix | Correlated variables, values higher than 0.5 | Correlated variables, values higher than 0.5 | Correlated variables, values higher than 0.5 | |||
| Determinant of the matrix | 0.001992139587910 | 0.156882043355530 | 0.318942324331276 | |||
| KMO index | 0.90176 | 0.88039 | 0.73541 | |||
| Bartlett's statistic | 645.7*** | 410.8 *** | 514.1*** | |||
| Measurement of sample adequacy | Coefficients between 0.62 and 0.80 | Coefficients between 0.62 and 0.80 | Coefficients between 0.62 and 0.80 | |||
| Component correlation matrix | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 1.000 | 0.646 | 1.000 | 0.525 | 1.000 | 1.000 |
| 2 | 0.646 | 1.000 | 0.525 | 1.000 | 0.400 | 1.000 |
***Significant at 99% confidence level.