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Testing the Health Practices in Pregnancy Questionnaire-II
1University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing, 600 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53792-2455, USA. kjlindgren@facstaff.wisc.edu
Objective:
To revise and test a 34-item self-administered questionnaire that measures health practices important to pregnancy outcome.
Design:
Three studies were conducted: a content validity study with nurse experts, a content validity study with pregnant women, and a cross-sectional study using mailed surveys to test the reliability and construct validity of the Health Practices in Pregnancy Questionnaire-II (HPQ-II).
Settings:
Nurse-midwifery and obstetric physician practices.
Participants:
Clinical experts (n = 8) and pregnant women (n = 10 for Study 2; n = 312 for Study 3).
Main Outcome Measure:
The HPQ-II, a self-report instrument that measures pregnancy health practices.
Results:
Content validity was established with two reviews of the HPQ-II conducted by clinical experts and pregnant women and by a satisfactory Content Validity Index. Construct validity was supported by statistically significant correlations with a measure of prepregnancy health practices, scores on individual prepregnancy health practice items, and a theoretically related measure of women's attitudes toward their pregnancies and babies. Reliability (internal consistency) was satisfactory.
Conclusions:
This instrument promises to be useful in research and practice involving health practices during pregnancy.
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