Translation, cultural adaptation and validation of "Pregnancy Experience Scale" for Brazilian pregnant

Abstract

Introduction: The analysis of maternal psychosocial stress during pregnancy can be an important intervention tool for maternal and infant health. Objective: To translate, culturally adapt and validate the Pregnancy Experience Scale - Brief Version - into Brazilian Portuguese for Brazilian pregnant women. Method: The scale was carried out according to the guidelines recommended by Beaton and his collaborators. Data were collected between January and September of 2016, in hospitals, basic health units, and community. In total, 206 pregnant women with an average age of 25.01 ± 6.44 years and gestational age of 25.5 ± 8.72 pregnancy weeks answered the scale for the process of psychometric analysis and validation. Results: The results indicated a two-dimensional model of the scale with two factors: Positive Experiences and Negative Experiences. The reliability was established through Cronbach’s Alpha Test (α > 0.70). The value found for the positive experiences factor was appropriate, α = 0.77. The same happened to the Negative Experiences factor, α = 0.80. These values provide evidence of the scale reliability. The convergent and concurrent validity of the instrument was established. Conclusion: The result of the psychometric study of the scale pointed out that the Pregnancy Experience Scale is an important intervention tool for the health care of mother and newborn, besides being a useful instrument to assess the experience of the women with the pregnancy, especially, the level of psychosocial stress, contributing to broaden the research in this area and subsidize support strategies for this population and women’s health policies.

Turkish version of the pregnancy experience scale-brief: validity and reliability study

“…The Cronbach's alpha value was found to be 0.82 and 0.83 for uplifts and hassles in the original version of the scale, respectively (DiPietro et al, 2008). In contrast, it was found to be 0.83 for uplifts and 0.76 for hassles in the Dutch version (van Der Zwan et al, 2017) and 0.77 for uplifts and 0.80 for hassles in the Brazilian version (Ferreira et al, 2020). The stability of two measurements made under the same conditions and at different times is one of the reliability criteria of the scales (Güngör, 2016).…”

“…The item-total correlation values of the uplifts and hassles subdimensions have been found to be 0.39-0.75, meaning that items are suitable for construct validity. The total-item correlation was found to be 0.24-0.76 in the Dutch version of the scale and 0.35-0.72 in the Brazilian version (Ferreira et al, 2020;van Der Zwan et al, 2017). The original version of PES-Brief has two subgroups (DiPietro et al, 2008).…”

“…Accurate information provided by the healthcare personnel to pregnant women during pregnancy may increase women's informed decisions and satisfaction levels. The original version of the PES-Brief scale, the Turkish validity, and reliability of which was analysed in the present study, was developed by DiPietro et al in 2008. The scale was adapted to Dutch (2017) and Brazilian (2020) languages (Ferreira et al, 2020;van Der Zwan et al, 2017).…”

“…The original version of PES-Brief has two subgroups (DiPietro et al, 2008). It was evaluated in two subgroups in the Brazilian and Dutch validity and reliability studies (Ferreira et al, 2020;van Der Zwan et al, 2017). In the present study, items were collected in two subfactors as in other validity studies of the scale.…”

“…In the present study, items were collected in two subfactors as in other validity studies of the scale. In both studies, items with low factor loading were not excluded from the scale (Ferreira et al, 2020;van Der Zwan et al, 2017). Internal consistency reliability is the evaluation made to determine how reliable the questions measure the data (Sousa & Rojjanasrirat, 2011).…”