Development of an initial questionnaire for women's perceptions of the labor and delivery experience

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Title Development of an initial questionnaire for women's perceptions of the labor and delivery experience
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Nursing
Department Nursing
Author Halter, Sarah Anne
Date 1987-08
Description The purpose of this study was the initial development of a valid, reliable, general instrument to assess women's perceptions of their labor and delivery experience. The instrument was designed around four domains: (1) Persons - professional caregivers, support persons; (2) Treatments - routine treatments, special procedures, (3) Environment, and (4) Effect on Self - self-control, expectations, and self-esteem. The process of tool development included generating items from the literature for test construction, content validation by a panel of experts, pretesting the instrument on a sample of 10 postpartum women, administration of the edited instrument to 79 postpartum women at a Salt Lake City hospital, and the establishment of initial sample reliability. This process led to a final instrument containing 24 items within five new domains identified by factor analysis. The scales in the final questionnaire and their alpha coefficients are (1) Self-Acceptance Scale, 8 items with alpha .88; (2) Self-Control Relating to Pain and Discomfort Scale, 6 items with alpha .77; (3) Dissatisfaction Scale, 3 items with alpha .74; (4) Response to the Treatment System Scale, 5 items with alpha .70; and (5) Conditions Under Which Care is Given Scale, 4 items with alpha .61. Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlations and t-tests for independent samples were also obtained. The result of this research is a tool appropriate for use in a variety of settings for assessment of intrapartum services. Further refinement of the instrument will include the addition of items to several scales, testing the instrument on a larger sample population, and conducting reliability studies on the results of the data. The reliabilities of these scales range from.88 to.61. The result of this research is a tool appropriate for use in a variety of settings for assessment of intrapartum services.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Evaluation Studies; Questionnaires; Health Surveys
Subject MESH Labor, Obstetric; Maternal Health Services; Obstetrical Nursing; Consumer Satisfaction; Delivery of Health Care
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "Development of an initial questionnaire for women's perceptions of the labor and delivery experience." Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "Development of an initial questionnaire for women's perceptions of the labor and delivery experience." available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collection. RG 41.5 1987 H34.
Rights Management ©Sarah Anne Halter
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
Identifier undthes,212006
Source Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available).
ARK ark:/87278/s6qc05d8
Setname ir_etd
ID 191863
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qc05d8
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