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

Version 1 : Received: 12 July 2024 / Approved: 12 July 2024 / Online: 12 July 2024 (15:00:27 CEST)

How to cite: Silva-Fernández, C. S.; de la Calle, M.; Camacho, P. A.; Arribas, S. M.; Garrosa, E.; Ramiro-Cortijo, D. Psychometric Reliability to Assess the Perception of Women's Fulfillment of Maternity Rights. Preprints 2024, 2024071078. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1078.v1 Silva-Fernández, C. S.; de la Calle, M.; Camacho, P. A.; Arribas, S. M.; Garrosa, E.; Ramiro-Cortijo, D. Psychometric Reliability to Assess the Perception of Women's Fulfillment of Maternity Rights. Preprints 2024, 2024071078. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1078.v1

Abstract

The fulfillment of rights to maternal healthcare is a key factor for wellbeing of woman. However, there is a lack of instrument to know the experience of women during maternity to bind the monitoring. The aim of this study was to validate an instrument to measure the woman’s perception of the fulfillment of rights during healthcare in pregnancy, childbirth and immediate postpartum. The instrument consist in 50 items was screening by an exploratory factor analysis. Additionally, the final version of the instrument consists in 29 items which was validate by confirmatory factor analysis and know-group validity. The instrument was applied in 185 Spanish women. The global Aiken’s V of initial instrument proposal was 0.89. Process resolves an instrument with 5 factors (information, privacy, consent, support, and participation) that explained the 60% of the total variance. The score of the instrument was correlated with resilience, maternity beliefs, and positive and negative affect. External validation showed relations with age, gravida, and number of labors. Additionally, the reliability Cronbach´s was 0.93 [0.91; 0.94]. In conclusion, the instrument developed is consistent and has appropriate psychometric properties for assess the fulfillment rights maternity healthcare.

Keywords

Maternity rights; Healthcare during pregnancy; Vulnerability; Perception of fulfillment

Subject

Public Health and Healthcare, Health Policy and Services

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