Validation of a pregnancy planning measure for Arabic-speaking women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The prevalence of unplanned pregnancy in Saudi Arabia has not been thoroughly investigated.

Objective

To conduct a psychometric evaluation study of the Arabic version of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy (LMUP).

Methods

To evaluate the psychometric properties of the LMUP, we conducted a self-administered online survey among 796 ever-married Saudi women aged 20-49 years, and a re-test survey among 24 women. The psychometric properties evaluated included content validity measured by content validity index (CVI), structural validity assessed by exploratory factor analysis (EFA), substantive validity assessed by hypothesis testing, contextual stability for the test-retest assessed by weighted Kappa, and internal consistency assessed by Cronbach's alpha.

SUBMITTER: Almaghaslah E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5653179 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature