Assessing the usability of complex psychosocial interventions: The Intervention Usability Scale
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2021
Publication Title
Implementation Research and Practice
Volume
2
First page number:
1
Last page number:
9
Abstract
Usability—the extent to which an intervention can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction—may be a key determinant of implementation success. However, few instruments have been developed to measure the design quality of complex health interventions (i.e., those with several interacting components). This study evaluated the structural validity of the Intervention Usability Scale (IUS), an adapted version of the well-established System Usability Scale (SUS) for digital technologies, to measure the usability of a leading complex psychosocial intervention, Motivational Interviewing (MI), for behavioral health service delivery in primary care. Prior SUS studies have found both one- and two-factor solutions, both of which were examined in this study of the IUS.
Keywords
complex health interventions, psychosocial interventions, mental health, usability, human-centered design, primary care
Disciplines
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Repository Citation
Lyon, A. R.,
Pullmann, M. D.,
Jacobson, J.,
Osterhage, K.,
Achkar, M. A.,
Renn, B. N.,
Munson, S. A.,
Arean, P. A.
(2021).
Assessing the usability of complex psychosocial interventions: The Intervention Usability Scale.
Implementation Research and Practice, 2
1-9.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2633489520987828