Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Cardiff Fertility Knowledge Scale and the Fertility Status Awareness Tool for the French-Canadian Population

Abstract

Tool (FertiSTAT) are validated tools allowing the evaluation of fertility knowledge and raising awareness about risk indicators for reduced fertility. Their use by health care professionals practicing in the field of reproductive health might optimize fertility of the Canadian population. However, there currently is no version of these questionnaires for the French-Canadian population. The objective of this study was to translate and culturally adapt the CFKS and FertiSTAT to the French-Canadian population. METHODS: The translation and adaptation of the questionnaires was completed following a 4stage approach: 1) forward translation, 2) synthesis, 3) expert committee review, and 4) testing of the prefinal version of the questionnaires. The testing stage was conducted with a sample of 30 women and 10 men. RESULTS: During the translation process, linguistic difficulties were met for some items of both questionnaires but were resolved by consensus of the expert committee. Thirty women and 10 men tested the prefinal version of the CFKS-F and FertiSTAT-F. On a 5-point Likert scale, the global comprehension was 4.8±0.5 and 4.6±0.6, respectively. Based on the comments of the participants, the expert committee made minor modifications in the final version of the questionnaires to clarify the formulation of questions and adapt to one medical term. CONCLUSION: Tools to assess fertility knowledge and the presence of risk indicators for reduced fertility are now available for health care professionals practicing in the field of reproductive health. (243)

Validity and reliability study of the Cardiff Fertility Knowledge Scale in Turkish

“…In the original scale developed by Bunting et al, 10 the Cronbach's alpha value was reported as 0.79, and this value was reported as 0.41 in the same study, for the Turkish version. The Cronbach's alpha value for the Japanese version of the scale was 0.74 13 and Farsi version of the scale was 0.84 15 while it was not specified for the and French 16 version. Our findings show similarity with the Japanese version of the scale; however, since other validity and reliability studies did not report specific values, it remains unexplored for discussion.…”

“…This form was prepared based on the literature. 10,13,16 It consists of nine questions querying the participants' sociodemographic characteristics and information related to fertility.…”

“…Adaptations of the scale already exist in Japanese, 13 Persian 15 and French. 16 Given the need for accurate information in making decisions about fertility, it is essential to measure and improve knowledge about the best age for fertility and factors that influence fertility potential. While there are measurement tools in our country that assess fertility awareness, there is currently no direct measurement tool specifically focusing on fertility knowledge.…”

“…Considering the low Cronbach's alpha value for the CFKS in Turkey, there is a need to modify the scale to be culturally appropriate for the Turkish population. Adaptations of the scale already exist in Japanese, 13 Persian 15 and French 16 …”

Psychological Impact of Infertility. Directions for the Development of Interventions

“…The other two mentioned instruments, SCREENIVF and FertiSTAT, are two very useful screening tools in the rapid evaluation of the patient immediately after diagnosis. SCREENIVF (Ockhuijsen et al, 2017) indicates the patient's risk of developing a psychopathology at the end of infertility treatment, and FertiSTAT (Blanchet et al, 2019) provides support in assessing knowledge about the pathology and helps increase awareness of associated risk factors for infertility. The latter consists of a list of indicators representing the main risk factors for low fertility in women and men, where each indicator is coded by a color signifying the severity of the factor (blue, yellow, orange and red -for more details see http://www.fertistat.com/).…”