Japanese Health Information Technology Usability Evaluation Scale for Sexually Transmitted Infection–Related Chatbots: Development and Psychometric Validation Study
Tomoko Hato, Hirono Ishikawa, Kense Todo, Keisuke Harada, Atsushi Yoshikawa, Yoshiharu Fukuda, Rebecca Schnall, Andre Kushniruk · 2026
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Tomoko Hato and co-authors build, in 2026, a Japanese scale to judge how easy health chatbots are to use. Their test case is a chatbot that advises young women on infections passed through sex. The team adapted a known health tech scale, translated it into Japanese, and checked the wording back and forth. Then 301 young women tried the chatbot and filled in the scale.
Scores hung together well across items, and the scale's structure held up in factor tests. High scores tracked with liking the tool and wanting to use it again. The authors offer the scale for sharper testing of health apps in Japan. Good tools, they note, must prove easy as well as sound.
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| CREATOR | Tomoko Hato, Hirono Ishikawa, Kense Todo, Keisuke Harada, Atsushi Yoshikawa, Yoshiharu Fukuda, Rebecca Schnall, Andre Kushniruk |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39282 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |