Reliability and validity study of the Spanish adaptation of the "Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire" (W-DEQ-A).

Autor: Ortega-Cejas CM; Midwife, Sexual and Reproductive Health Clinic (ASSIR), Mollet del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain., Roldán-Merino J; Campus Docent, Sant Joan de Déu - Fundació Privada, School of Nursing, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.; Research Group GIES (Grupo de investigación en Enfermería, Educación y Sociedad), Barcelona, Spain.; Research Group GEIMAC (Consolidated Group 2017-1681: Group of Studies of Invarianza of the Instruments of Measurement and Analysis of Change in the Social and Health Areas), Barcelona, Spain., Lluch-Canut T; Research Group GEIMAC (Consolidated Group 2017-1681: Group of Studies of Invarianza of the Instruments of Measurement and Analysis of Change in the Social and Health Areas), Barcelona, Spain.; Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain., Castrillo-Pérez MI; Midwife, Sexual and Reproductive Health Clinic (ASSIR) La Riera, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain., Vicente-Hernández MM; Midwife, Sexual and Reproductive Health Clinic (ASSIR) Doctor Barraquer, Sant Adrià del Besòs, Barcelona, Spain., Jimenez-Barragan M; Midwifery Coordinator, Sexual and Reproductive Health Clinic (ASSIR) Fundació Assistencial Mútua Terrassa, (Terrassa) Midwife, Sexual and Reproductive Health Clinic (ASSIR) Rambla Terrassa, (Terrassa) Docente en Fundació Universitaria del Bages, Barcelona, Spain., Biurrun-Garrido A; Campus Docent, Sant Joan de Déu - Fundació Privada, School of Nursing, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.; Research Group GIES (Grupo de investigación en Enfermería, Educación y Sociedad), Barcelona, Spain., Farres-Tarafa M; Campus Docent, Sant Joan de Déu - Fundació Privada, School of Nursing, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.; Research Group GIES (Grupo de investigación en Enfermería, Educación y Sociedad), Barcelona, Spain.; Member Research Group GRISIMula (Grupo emergente 2017 SGR 531; Grupo en Recerca Enfermera en Simulación), Barcelona, Spain.; Secretary, GRISCA Research Group (Nurising Simulation in Catalonia and Andorra Research Group), Barcelona, Spain., Casas I; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.; Preventive Medicine Service, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona, Spain.; Research Group Innovation in Respiratory Infections and Tuberculosis Diagnosis (Group Consolidat 2017 SGR 494), Barcelona, Spain., Cabrera-Jaime S; Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.; Corporate Care Management, Institut Català d'Oncologia (ICO), L'Hospitalet de LLobregat, Barcelona, Spain.; GRIN Group, IDIBELL, Institute of Biomedical Research, Barcelona, Spain.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2021 Mar 19; Vol. 16 (3), pp. e0248595. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Mar 19 (Print Publication: 2021).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0248595
Abstrakt: The Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire (W-DEQ-A) is an instrument that evaluates fear of childbirth through the expectations of women in relation to childbirth and their experience during the birth. The objective of this study was to translate the W-DEQ-A into Spanish and analyse its reliability and validity. The study was carried out in two phases: (1) adapting the questionnaire to Spanish and (2) a transversal study in a sample of 273 pregnant women in the Sexual and Reproductive Health centres in the Metropolitan Northern Barcelona in Catalonia (Spain). The psychometric properties were analysed in terms of reliability and construct validity. The confirmatory factorial analysis did not confirm the unidimensionality of the original structure of the WDEQ-A, as happened with the other studies in which it has previously been validated. The result of the exploratory factorial analysis suggests four factors, or dimensions, very similar but not identical to those obtained in other analysis studies of the W-DEQ-A. The Cronbach alpha and the omega scale were also adequate for all the scales and for each of the dimensions. The results of this study confirm the findings of other studies that suggest that the W-DEQ-A is multi-dimensional. In the Spanish version of the W-DEQ-A four dimensions have been identified to explore fear of childbirth in pregnant women. The Spanish version of the WDEQ-A (WDEQ-A-Sp) is reliable and valid for the measurement of fear of childbirth in clinical practice and for use in future research.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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