Sedigheh Ayoubi1, Farzaneh Pazandeh2, Masoumeh Simbar3, Maryam Moridi4, Elham Zare5, Barbara Potrata6. 1. Student Research Committee, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 2. Department of Midwifery and Reproductive Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Midwifery and Reproductive Health Research center, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: pazandehf@gmail.com. 3. Midwifery and Reproductive Health Research center, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 4. Student Research Committee, Department of Midwifery and Reproductive Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 5. Department of Midwifery and Reproductive Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 6. Independent scholar, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To develop and assess the psychometric properties of Women's Perspection-Respectful Maternity Care (WP-RMC) Questionnaire. DESIGN: An exploratory sequential mixed method study was carried out from March to August 2018 in Tehran, Iran. The questionaire items were generated from the literature review and qualitatatve study. The revised items of questionnaire were assessed for validity via testing for face, content and construct validity and relibility. SETTING: Public and semi-public hospitals, and public primary health care centers. PARTICIPANTS: Postpartum women who had a low risk pregnancy, normal vaginal childbirth and gave birth to a healthy baby with normal birth weight. FINDINGS: The WP-RMC has 19 items that loaded in three factors: Providing comfort, Participatory care and Mistreatment. Exploratory factor analysis jointly accounted for 53.05% of observed variance. The CVI was 0.97 and the CVR in all items was more than 0.79. Cronbach's alpha for all items was 0.91 and ICC was 0.9. KEY CONCLUSIONS: 'The WP-RMCquestionnaire is a valid and reliable tool to measure women's experiences of Respectful Maternity Care. This questionnaire could assess subjective features of quality of childbirth care. It can be used in maternity services trying to evaluate and improve women's care experiences during labour and childbirth. The use of the translation of WP-RMC questionnaire in other countries is recommended.
OBJECTIVE: To develop and assess the psychometric properties of Women's Perspection-Respectful Maternity Care (WP-RMC) Questionnaire. DESIGN: An exploratory sequential mixed method study was carried out from March to August 2018 in Tehran, Iran. The questionaire items were generated from the literature review and qualitatatve study. The revised items of questionnaire were assessed for validity via testing for face, content and construct validity and relibility. SETTING: Public and semi-public hospitals, and public primary health care centers. PARTICIPANTS: Postpartum women who had a low risk pregnancy, normal vaginal childbirth and gave birth to a healthy baby with normal birth weight. FINDINGS: The WP-RMC has 19 items that loaded in three factors: Providing comfort, Participatory care and Mistreatment. Exploratory factor analysis jointly accounted for 53.05% of observed variance. The CVI was 0.97 and the CVR in all items was more than 0.79. Cronbach's alpha for all items was 0.91 and ICC was 0.9. KEY CONCLUSIONS: 'The WP-RMCquestionnaire is a valid and reliable tool to measure women's experiences of Respectful Maternity Care. This questionnaire could assess subjective features of quality of childbirth care. It can be used in maternity services trying to evaluate and improve women's care experiences during labour and childbirth. The use of the translation of WP-RMC questionnaire in other countries is recommended.