Psychometric Reliability to Assess the Perception of Women's Fulfillment of Maternity Rights.

ABSTRACT: The fulfillment of rights to maternal healthcare is a key factor for the wellbeing of women. However, there is a lack of an instrument to ascertain the experience of women during maternity to enable adequate monitoring. The aim of this study was to validate a new instrument to measure women's perception of the fulfillment of rights during healthcare in pregnancy and childbirth and immediately postpartum. The initial version of the instrument consists of 50 items and was validated using exploratory factor analysis. Additionally, the final version of the instrument consists of 29 items and was validated by confirmatory factor analysis and known-group validity. The instrument was applied to 185 Spanish women. The global Aiken's V of the initial instrument proposal was 0.89. The process result

SUBMITTER: Silva-Fernandez CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11353840 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature