Reliability and validity study of the Spanish adaptation of the "Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire" (W-DEQ-A)
Ortega-Cejas, Celia Maria (Institut Català de la Salut. Atenció a la Salut Sexual i Reproductiva)
Roldán Merino, Juan Francisco (Grup d'Estudis d'Invariància dels Instruments de Mesura i Anàlisi del Canvi-GEIMAC (Barcelona, Catalunya))
Lluch-Canut, Teresa (Universitat de Barcelona. Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut)
Castrillo-Pérez, Mª Isabel (Midwife, Sexual and Reproductive Health Clinic (Barcelona))
Vicente-Hernández, Mª Mercedes (Institut Català de la Salut. Atenció a la Salut Sexual i Reproductiva)
Jimenez-Barragan, Marta (Hospital Universitari MútuaTerrassa (Barcelona))
Biurrun-Garrido, Ainoa (Universitat de Barcelona)
Farres-Tarafa, Mariona (Universitat de Barcelona)
Casas, Irma (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Cabrera Jaime, Sandra (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge)

Fecha:	2021
Resumen:	The Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire (W-DEQ-A) is an instrument that evaluates fear of childbirth through the expectations of women in relation to childbirth and their experience during the birth. The objective of this study was to translate the W-DEQ-A into Spanish and analyse its reliability and validity. The study was carried out in two phases: (1) adapting the questionnaire to Spanish and (2) a transversal study in a sample of 273 pregnant women in the Sexual and Reproductive Health centres in the Metropolitan Northern Barcelona in Catalonia (Spain). The psychometric properties were analysed in terms of reliability and construct validity. The confirmatory factorial analysis did not confirm the unidimensionality of the original structure of the WDEQ-A, as happened with the other studies in which it has previously been validated. The result of the exploratory factorial analysis suggests four factors, or dimensions, very similar but not identical to those obtained in other analysis studies of the W-DEQ-A. The Cronbach alpha and the omega scale were also adequate for all the scales and for each of the dimensions. The results of this study confirm the findings of other studies that suggest that the W-DEQ-A is multi-dimensional. In the Spanish version of the W-DEQ-A four dimensions have been identified to explore fear of childbirth in pregnant women. The Spanish version of the WDEQ-A (WDEQ-A-Sp) is reliable and valid for the measurement of fear of childbirth in clinical practice and for use in future research.
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Lengua:	Anglès
Documento:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Publicado en:	PloS one, Vol. 16 (march 2021) , ISSN 1932-6203

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0248595
PMID: 33740006

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