The development and psychometric analysis of an instrument to measure a woman's experience of childbirth
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This paper describes the development and testing of the Women's Experience in Childbirth Survey (WECS). Although many qualitative and quantitative studies of the childbirth experience have been published, there is no comprehensive instrument that measures the physical, emotional, cognitive, and social aspects of the experience. Forty nine Likert-type items were generated from review of the literature and feedback from mothers participating in two pilot studies. Content validity was analyzed with both pilot studies. For this study, the WECS was administered to 305 inpatient post-partum women at two community hospitals. A sub sample of women completed the WECS at least two weeks after discharge for test-re-test reliability analysis. Data analysis identified four sub-scales that aligned with the conceptual framework: Support during Childbirth, Physical and Emotional Responses to Childbirth, Transformative Experience of Childbirth, and Handling Pain. The number of items was reduced to 42 based on factor analysis. Validity of the WECS was supported by comparison to known groups: age, parity, length of labor, support, and medical interventions. Reliability of the WECS was measured by an alpha coefficient = .87; alpha coefficients for the subscale scores ranged between .66 and .82. Test-retest analysis found no significant difference between inpatient WECS scores and post-discharge scores, although three of the subscale scores were significantly different from time to time. Overall, the WECS appears to be a sufficiently valid and reliable instrument that would benefit from further development. A fully developed WECS could be used to determine the most significant aspects of a multidimensional experience in order to improve care and assist the woman in her transition to becoming a mother.
This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 3672949; ProQuest document ID: 1652480413. The author still retains copyright.
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Type | Dissertation |
Acquisition | Proxy-submission |
Review Type | None: Degree-based Submission |
Format | Text-based Document |
Evidence Level | Cross-Sectional |
Research Approach | Qualitative Research |
Keywords | Birth Experience; Tool Development; Women's Experiences |
CINAHL Subject(s) | Childbirth; Instrument Construction; Instrument Validation; Psychometrics |
Grantor | West Virginia University |
Advisor | Sand-Jecklin, Kari |
Level | PhD |
Year | 2014 |
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