Cultural adaptation of the person-centered maternity care scale at governmental health facilities in Cambodia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Cambodia, the importance of valuing women's childbirth experiences in improving quality of care has been understudied. This is largely because of absence of reliable Khmer tools for measuring women's intrapartum care experiences. Generally, cross-cultural development of those tools often involves translation from a source language into a target language. Yet, few earlier studies considered Cambodian cultural context. Thus, we developed the Cambodian version of the Person-Centered Maternity Care (PCMC) scale, by culturally adapting its original to Cambodian context for ensuring cultural equivalence and content validity.

Methods

Three rounds of cognitive interviewing with 20 early postpartum women were conducted at two governmental health facilities in Cambodia.

SUBMITTER: Naito YT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9810154 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature