Development of the Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale: the TPDS.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pregnant women with high levels of stress, depression and/or anxiety are at increased risk for adverse perinatal outcomes and impaired neurologic and emotional development of the offspring. Pregnancy specific instruments to measure psychological functioning during gestation are scarce and do not define items based on in-depth interviews of pregnant and recently delivered women. The current study developed a pregnancy specific scale that measures psychological functioning using in-depth interviews.

Methods

Three focus groups were formed to discuss issues most relevant to pregnancy distress; 22 candidate items were derived for pilot testing (study I, n = 419) its psychometric properties by means of explorative factor analyses (EFA). This resulted in a 17-item TPDS w

SUBMITTER: Pop VJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3216243 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature