Cross-cultural validation and psychometrics' evaluation of women's experience of maternity care scale in French: the ESEM.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evaluating women's satisfaction should reflect the entire maternity care experience (antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal). The Women's Experience Maternity Care Scale (WEMCS) questionnaire enables this assessment. The purpose of this study was to translate in French, adapt and explore the psychometric properties of the WEMCS and to determine the best cut-off on the optimal satisfaction for the three scales.

Methods

Backward, forward translation and cross-cultural adaptation were processed to validate the French version of WEMCS: Échelle de Satisfaction de l'Experience des soins en Maternité (ESEM). Psychometric tests assessed the questionnaire, which includes three scales, such as construct validity, internal consistency, Cronbach's alpha coefficients and ceiling

SUBMITTER: Floris L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7353730 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature