Transcultural adaptation and validation of the Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale (TPDS) in the Brazilian cultural context

Volpato, Lia Karina; Siqueira, Debora Cristina; Nunes, Rodrigo Dias; Filho, João Ghizzo; Traebert, Jefferson

doi:10.1016/j.midw.2019.04.012

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“…Indeed, of the 19 measures used in more than one paper, 9 were developed in the United States and 6 in Europe. Some were validated for use in other populations: the Pregnancy-Related Anxiety Questionnaire [ 26 ], Cambridge Worry Scale [ 30 ], Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale [ 45 ], and Pregnancy-Related Anxiety Scale [ 38 , 39 ], were all validated for use with participants in at least one low- or middle-income country [ 49 – 53 ].…”

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“…Despite pregnancy-related anxiety being relatively frequently assessed in low- and middle-income countries, only two measures were originally developed for use in this context, and only four measures have been validated for use in any low- or middle-income country population (PRAQ, PRAS, CWS, and Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale. Although measures were used in Africa and South America, none of the measures were validated for use in any country in Africa, and only one was validated for use with a population in South America (in Brazil [ 53 ]). This is a substantial issue.…”

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Measurement of pregnancy-related anxiety worldwide: a systematic review

Hadfield

Akyirem

Sartori

et al. 2022

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth

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Background The perinatal period is often characterized by specific fear, worry, and anxiety concerning the pregnancy and its outcomes, referred to as pregnancy-related anxiety. Pregnancy-related anxiety is uniquely associated with negative maternal and child health outcomes during pregnancy, at birth, and early childhood; as such, it is increasingly studied. We examined how pregnancy-related anxiety is measured, where measures were developed and validated, and where pregnancy-related anxiety has been assessed. We will use these factors to identify potential issues in measurement of pregnancy-related anxiety and the geographic gaps in this area of research. Methods We searched the Africa-Wide, CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO; PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science Core Collection, SciELO Citation Index, and ERIC databases for studies published at any point up to 01 August 2020 that assessed pregnancy-related anxiety. Search terms included pregnancy-related anxiety, pregnancy-related worry, prenatal anxiety, anxiety during pregnancy, and pregnancy-specific anxiety, among others. Inclusion criteria included: empirical research, published in English, and the inclusion of any assessment of pregnancy-related anxiety in a sample of pregnant women. This review is registered on PROSPERO (CRD42020189938). Results The search identified 2904 records; after screening, we retained 352 full-text articles for consideration, ultimately including 269 studies in the review based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. In total, 39 measures of pregnancy-related anxiety were used in these 269 papers, with 18 used in two or more studies. Less than 20% of the included studies (n = 44) reported research conducted in low- and middle-income country contexts. With one exception, all measures of pregnancy-related anxiety used in more than one study were developed in high-income country contexts. Only 13.8% validated the measures for use with a low- or middle-income country population. Conclusions Together, these results suggest that pregnancy-related anxiety is being assessed frequently among pregnant people and in many countries, but often using tools that were developed in a context dissimilar to the participants’ context and which have not been validated for the target population. Culturally relevant measures of pregnancy-related anxiety which are developed and validated in low-income countries are urgently needed.

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Measurement of pregnancy-related anxiety worldwide: a systematic review

Hadfield

Akyirem

Sartori

et al. 2022

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth

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“…Also in a similar study conducted by Volpato et al in Brazil, the loading factor of this item was less than 0.3, but in Brazilian version, the reason is stated differently. They believed that certain items have received very similar responses (Such as answers often / very often) [ 26 ] . But in the present study, we think that the reason is that 78.1% of women were housewives and women working in the public sector had up to 9 months maternity leave.…”

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“…The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of TPDS-P was calculated to be 0.81, having been 0.78 in the original scale, 0.73 in the Brazilian [ 26 ], and 0.70 in the Turkish versions of the scale [ 1 ], which demonstrates that this scale is suitable to be used in the Iranian society. Moreover, Cronbach’s alpha was obtained to be higher for the examined subscales than the overall coefficient.…”

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Psychometric properties of the Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale-Persian version (TPDS-P)

Pishahang

Hakimi

Vatankhah

et al. 2021

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth

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Background Given the importance of screening pregnant women’s distress, it was intended to investigate the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale (TPDS-P) for screening pregnancy distress. Methods This methodological psychometric study was conducted with participation of 360 pregnant women. The TPDS was translated into Persian. Factor analysis was used to investigate the construct validity. The results of the correlation test between the results of the two questionnaires, Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 (DASS-21) and TPDS-P, were used to determine the criterion validity of TPDS-P. Internal consistency of the items was calculated by the Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Stability of the results was examined by test-retest method and Intra-class Correlation Coefficient (ICC) was calculated. Examining the structure of the factors derived from exploratory factor analysis, fitness of the model was done through confirmatory factor analysis. Statistical analysis was done using SPSS software. Results Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) was 0.846 (p = 0.001). Sixteen items of TPDS-P accounted for 51.42 percent variances. The TPDS-P exhibited appropriate fitness. There was poor to moderate but significant direct correlation between the subscales of DASS-21 and TPDS-P. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of the TPDS-P was 0.81 and ICC was 0.70. Conclusions TPDS-P, with appropriate validity and reliability, can be used as a practical scale to evaluate women's distress during pregnancy in Farsi-speaking societies.

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“…Because the Dutch childbearing population has a specific attitude towards childbirth (de Vries et al, 2013), the 16-items Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale (TPDS) has been developed and validated in a Dutch pregnant population to capture the experience of childbirth-related fear of Dutch women (Pop et al, 2011;Boekhorst et al, 2019). Psychometric and discriminative properties of the TPDS have reported in numerous studies which evaluated the TPDS as good in terms of test-retest reliability, internal consistency, construct and concurrent validity (Ertugrul et al, 2014;Çapi & Pasinlioglu 2015;Evans et al, 2015;Boekhorst et al, 2019;Volpato et al, 2019). At the moment of the current study, the TPDS was the best available diagnostic tool in the Netherlands.…”

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