Abstract

Background

Providing gender sensitive reproductive health service is recently emphasized by health organizations. This study aims to develop and assess psychometric properties of a questionnaire to assess gender sensitivity of perinatal care services (GS-PNCS) to be used by managers of perinatal services.

Methods

This study is a mixed sequential (Qualitative-Quantitative) exploratory study. In the qualitative phase, 34 participants were interviewed and the items were generated. To evaluate the validity; face, content and construct validity were assessed. The reliability was assessed by internal consistency and stability calculation.

Results

The content validity and reliability were demonstrated by S-CVR = 0.92 and S-CVI = 0.98, Cronbach’s α = 0.880 and the ICC = 0.980 to 0.947. Exploratory factor analysis showed 8 factors which explained more than 52.53% of the variance.

Conclusion

GS-PNCS is a valid and reliable questionnaire, with 49 items to assess gender sensitivity of perinatal care services and helps health care managers and planners to improve the quality of the services.

Details

Title
Design and psychometric properties of a questionnaire to assess gender sensitivity of perinatal care services: a sequential exploratory study
Author
Simbar, Masoumeh; Rahmanian, Fatemeh; Nazarpour, Soheila  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Ramezankhani, Ali; Eskandari, Narges; Zayeri, Farid
Pages
1-13
Section
Research article
Publication year
2020
Publication date
2020
Publisher
BioMed Central
e-ISSN
14712458
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2424805862
Copyright
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