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Turkish adaptation of Desire to Avoid Pregnancy Scale: A validity and reliability study
Özlem Doğan Yüksekol1, Mesude Duman2, Sermin Timur Taşhan3
1Department of Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences Fırat University, Elazığ, Turkey.
Aim:
The purpose of the study was to adapt the Desire to Avoid Pregnancy Scale into Turkish and to study its validity and reliability.
Methods:
The methodological study design was used. The study sample consisted of 510 nonpregnant women in a university hospital of a province in the east of Turkey between the dates of August 2019-February 2020. Personal information form and Turkish form of the scale were administered to women. The contraceptive intention scale was used as a parallel form.
Results:
In the study, it was determined that the scale consisted of 14 items as a result of exploratory factor analysis. As a result of the item analysis, it was determined that the scale item total correlations were between r = 0.71 and 0.92. The Cronbach alpha coefficient of the scale was 0.97. The item-total correlation of the scale and parallel form reliability showed a high level of agreement.
Conclusion:
It was determined that the Desire to Avoid Pregnancy Scale is a valid and reliable measurement tool for determining the wishes of Turkish women regarding pregnancy.
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