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Tuba Uçar1, Esra Güney1, Büşra Cesur2
1Department of Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences, İnönü University, Malatya, Turkey.
Purpose:
This study aimed to develop a scale that measures body image concerns during pregnancy.
Design And Methods:
The study administered draft of the scale for validity and reliability analysis to 320 pregnant women who visited the maternity polyclinic of a public hospital in eastern Turkey between February and May 2016.
Findings:
The Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient of the entire scale was 0.88. Factor analysis determined that the 23 items that explained 58.578% of total variance were in four of the factors.
Practice Implications:
The scale for body image concerns during pregnancy was a valid and reliable scale.
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