Construct and content validity of the Turkish Birth Satisfaction Scale – Revised (T-BSS-R)

Serhatlioğlu, Seda Göncü; Karahan, Nazan; Martin, Caroline J. Hollins; Martin, Colin R.

doi:10.1080/02646838.2018.1443322

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“…Using the BSS-R scale, mean birth satisfaction score in this study (23.8, SD 6.5) was lower than that in most studies in other countries such as US (32.4, SD 6.4) [ 31 ], Australia (30.4, SD 5.9) [ 34 ], UK (28.4, SD 5.6) [ 29 ], Spain (28.1, SD 6.2) [ 36 ], and Greece (27.4, SD 6.2) [ 32 ] but was higher than that in Turkey (20.4, SD 6.0) [ 33 ]. The high medicalized birth management in Iran may be an important reason for the lower birth satisfaction in the study setting compared to many of the other studies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Original version of the scale was developed in the UK in 2014 [ 29 ]. It is now internationally considered the instrument of choice for assessing birth satisfaction [ 30 ] and various versions of it have been validated, including the US-BSS-R [ 31 ], Greek-BSS-R [ 32 ], Turkish-BSS-R [ 33 ], Australian-BSS-R [ 34 ], Italian-BSS-R [ 35 ], and Spanish-BSS-R [ 36 ]. The two subscales (satisfaction with doctor and nurse-midwife, items 17–33) of the Mackey childbirth satisfaction rating scale [ 37 ] was used to measure staff support.…”

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Pre- and during-labour predictors of low birth satisfaction among Iranian women: a prospective analytical study

Nahaee

Mohammad‐Alizadeh‐Charandabi

Abbasalizadeh

et al. 2020

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth

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Background: Maternal childbirth dissatisfaction has short-and long-term negative effects on the mothers' health and life, as well as on relation with her child and family. Due to lack of studies in Iran and other counties, we aimed to determine pre-and during-labour predictors of low birth satisfaction. Methods: Seven hundred women with low risk singleton pregnancy participated in this prospective analytical study. The participants were hospitalized for vaginal delivery with fetus in cephalic presentation and gestational age of 37 0-41 6 at two teaching centers in Tabriz (Iran). Woman characteristics, anxiety state (using Spielberger inventory) and dehydration were assessed at cervical dilatation of 4-6 cm. Iranian (Persian) birth satisfaction scalerevised was applied 12-24 h after birth. Multiple linear regression was used to determine the predictors. Results: Excluding 26 women who were outliers, 674 women were analyzed. The mean birth satisfaction score was 23.8 (SD 6.5) from an attainable score of 0-40. The during-labour predictors of low birth satisfaction score were severe and moderate anxiety, labour dystocia, insufficient support by staff, vaginal birth with episiotomy and tear, emergency cesarean section, labour induction and labour augmentation with oxytocin, and woman dehydration. The pre-labour predictors included being primiparous, sexual and emotional violence during pregnancy, gestational age of 40 0-41 6 , preference for cesarean section, no attendance at pregnancy classes, and insufficient household income. The proportion of the variance explained by the during-labour variables was 75%, by pre-labour variables was 14% and by overall was 76%. Conclusions: The controllable during-labour predictors explains most of the variance of the satisfaction score. It seems that responding to women's physical and psychological needs during labour and applying less interventions could improve women's childbirth satisfaction.

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Pre- and during-labour predictors of low birth satisfaction among Iranian women: a prospective analytical study

Nahaee

Mohammad‐Alizadeh‐Charandabi

Abbasalizadeh

et al. 2020

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth

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“…Evaluation of the tri-dimensional measurement model of the BSS-R (Objective 1) was conducted using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA; (Brown, 2015)). CFA represents the statistical approach to evaluate a measurement model and has been applied to several BSS-R validation studies (Barbosa-Leiker et al, 2015;Göncü Serhatlıoğlu et al, 2018;Jefford et al, 2018;Vardavaki et al, 2015). The bi-factor model was also evaluated using CFA.…”

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Validation and factor structure of the Italian version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R)

Nespoli

Colciago

Fumagalli

et al. 2020

Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology

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Objective: To validate the Italian-language version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R) and report key measurement properties of the tool. To evaluate the impact of antenatal class attendance on BSS-R assessed birth satisfaction.Background: Maternal satisfaction is one of the standards of care defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) to improve the quality of services. The BSS-R is a multi-dimensional self-report measure of the experience of labour and birth.Methods: Cross-sectional instrument evaluation design examining factor structure and key aspects of validity and reliability. Embedded between-subjects design to examine known-group discriminant validity and the impact of antenatal class attendance on BSS-R sub-scale and total scores as dependent variables. After giving birth, 297 women provided data for analysis . Results:The Italian version of the BSS-R (I-BSS-R) was the key study measure. The established three-factor and bi-factor models of the BSS-R were found to offer an excellent fit to the data. Comparison of the tri-dimensional measurement model and the bi-factor model of the BSS-R found no significant differences between models. Women who attended antenatal classes had significantly lower stress experienced during childbearing sub-scale scores (I-BSS-R SE), compared to those who did not. Good convergent, divergent validity and known-groups discriminant validity was established for the I-BSS-R. Internal consistency observations were found to be sub-optimal in this population.Conclusions: On all key psychometric indices, with the exception of internal consistency that requires further investigation, the I-BSS-R was found to be a valid translation of the original BSS-R. The impact of antenatal classes on birth satisfaction warrants further research.

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“…The results of the present study demonstrated no significant correlations between maternal age and the Iranian-BSS-R total and subscale scores, which confirmed the divergent validity of the scale. In all the previous validation studies on the BSS-R, divergent validity has been confirmed (Barbosa-Leiker et al, 2015;Goncu Serhatlioglu et al, 2018;Martin & Martin, 2014;Romero-Gonzalez et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 66%

“…In addition, such tools could help compare maternal satisfaction with natural delivery and cesarean section on a national scale. In Iran, the importance of these tools is further emphasized due to the high rate of cesarean section (Gibbons et al, 2010) and increased maternal request for cesarean section without medical indications (Darsareh et al, 2017). As such, the reduction of cesarean section is a priority of the Iranian Ministry of Health.…”

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Psychometric properties of the birth satisfaction scale-revised (BSS-R) in a sample of postpartum Iranian women

Mortazavi

Mehrabadi

Martin

et al. 2020

Health Care for Women International

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Childbirth satisfaction may positively affect maternal intention to have a future pregnancy and preference to have a cesarean. We translate the UK-Birth-Satisfaction-Scale-Revised (UK-BSS-R) into Persian and validate an Iranian-BSS-R for future use in this population. In total, 784 mothers who were hospitalized in postpartum wards completed the Persian version of the BSS-R. The confirmatory factor analysis on 10-items scale confirmed the conventional three-factor structure. The Cronbach's alpha of the Iranian-BSS-R subscales and the total score were within the range of 0.53-0.76. Our findings provide further evidence that the BSS-R is an internationally reliable and valid instrument to measure birth satisfaction.

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Construct and content validity of the Turkish Birth Satisfaction Scale – Revised (T-BSS-R)

Abstract: Data analysis determined that the T-BSS-R is a valid and reliable instrument to measure birth satisfaction in a population of Turkish women. The T-BSS-R is available for use from c.hollinsmartin@napier.ac.uk .

Cited by 32 publications

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Pre- and during-labour predictors of low birth satisfaction among Iranian women: a prospective analytical study

Pre- and during-labour predictors of low birth satisfaction among Iranian women: a prospective analytical study

Validation and factor structure of the Italian version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R)

Psychometric properties of the birth satisfaction scale-revised (BSS-R) in a sample of postpartum Iranian women

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