Development and psychometric properties of Iranian women childbirth experience questionnaire.
Monirolsadate Hosseini Tabaghdehi, Afsaneh Keramat, Zohreh Shahhosseini and 3 others
PMID 33378116WHAT IT FOUND
A new questionnaire for Iranian women's childbirth experience was reduced to 52 items and covered seven areas, including midwife support, preparation, baby contact, fear, perception and control.
It scored consistently enough to be usable as a measure.
Key findings
01The questionnaire was reduced to 52 items covering seven factors: professional support, husband's and other important support, baby, preparation, fear, positive perception and control.
02A higher total score on the questionnaire means a more positive and pleasant childbirth experience.
03After factor analysis, the instrument's reliability was 0.62 to 0.92 for the factors and 0.91 for the whole instrument.
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What it does not show
It was developed in Iran and tested only in women with uncomplicated vaginal delivery within 12 hours to 2 months after birth. Face and content validity used smaller samples than construct validity: 20 women and 10 or 15 experts. The factor structure was simplified after analysis: 10 factors were reduced to 7, and factors with low reliability or few items were merged. The paper reports questionnaire properties, not whether using the questionnaire changes care or patient outcomes.
Declared interests
The study was supported by Shahroud University of Medical Sciences (grant No 97161).
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that midwife support or any childbirth programme improves birth experience. The paper develops and tests a questionnaire in Iranian women with vaginal delivery; it does not test an intervention.