Construct and content validity of the Greek version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale (G-BSS)

Vardavaki, Zoi; Hollins Martin, Caroline J.; Martin, Colin R.

Abstract

Background: ‘Birth Satisfaction’ is a term that encompasses a woman’s evaluation of her birth experience. The term includes factors such as her appraisal of the quality of care she received, a personal assessment of how she coped, and her reconstructions of what happened on that particular day. Her accounts may be accurate or skewed, yet correspond with her reality of how events unfolded. Objective: To evaluate properties of an instrument designed to measure birth satisfaction in a Greek population of postnatal women. Study design: We assessed factor structure, internal consistency, divergent validity and known-groups discriminant validity of the 30-item Greek Birth Satisfaction Scale – Long Form (30-item G-BSS-LF) and its revised version the 10-item Greek-BSS-Revised (10-item-G-BSS-R), using survey data collected in Athens. Participants: A convenience sample of healthy Greek postnatal women (n = 162) aged 22–46 years who had delivered between 34 and 42 weeks’ gestation. Results: The 30-item-G-BSS-LF performed poorly in terms of factor structure. The short-form 10-item-G-BSS-R performed well in terms of measurement replication of the English equivalent version as a multidimensional instrument. The short-form 10-item-G-BSS-R comprises three subscales which measure distinct but correlated domains of: (1) quality of care provision (4 items), (2) women’s personal attributes (2 items), and (3) stress experienced during labour (4 items). Key conclusions: The 10-item-G-BSS-R is a valid and reliable multidimensional psychometric instrument for measuring birth satisfaction in Greek postnatal women.

Citation

Vardavaki, Z., Hollins Martin, C. J., & Martin, C. R. (2015). Construct and content validity of the Greek version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale (G-BSS). Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 33(5), 488-503. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2015.1035235

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 16, 2015
• Online Publication Date: May 26, 2015
• Publication Date: Oct 20, 2015
• Deposit Date: Jul 24, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 24, 2015
• Print ISSN: 0264-6838
• Electronic ISSN: 1469-672X
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 33
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 488-503
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2015.1035235
• Keywords: Birth Satisfaction Scale (BSS); childbearing women; Greek; intranatal; labour; psychometric properties
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/8894
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2015.1035235