Evaluation of the Desire to Avoid Pregnancy Scale in the UK: a psychometric analysis including predictive validity.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the psychometric performance, including predictive validity, of a UK version of the Desire to Avoid Pregnancy (DAP) scale.

Design

Prospective cohort study for psychometric evaluation.

Setting

UK.

Participants

Women in the UK aged 15 years to menopause, who were not pregnant at the time of recruitment in October 2018, were eligible. 994 women completed the baseline survey and 90.2% of women eligible for the 12-month survey participated.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The DAP scale was assessed according to key measurement properties of validity (construct (structural and hypothesis testing) and criterion (predictive)), reliability (internal consistency using Cronbach's alpha and test-retest using intraclass correlation coeff

SUBMITTER: Hall J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9328097 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature