Do Physical Activity Behaviours Influence the Success of Assisted Reproductive Technology? A Systematic Review of the Literature

Blanchet, Carole; Lavallée, Élisabeth; Babineau, Véronique; Ruchat, Stéphanie-May

doi:10.1016/j.jogc.2017.07.001

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“…Third, the PARSQ’s validity and reliability were primarily tested on a population of women with activity restriction due to TPTL. To expand the PARSQ’s usefulness, its validity and reliability could be further evaluated among women who are advised to restrict their activity to alleviate their pregnancy complications or improve the success of implantation [ 47 ]. Fourth, to understand the effect of stress of activity restriction on women’s pregnancy outcomes, the PARSQ’s predictive validity should be tested in the future.…”

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Development and validation of the prenatal activity restriction stress questionnaire: a Rasch rating scale analysis

Hung

Chang

2020

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth

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Background Antepartum activity restriction (AAR) is a common recommendation given to women at risk for preterm delivery. However, such treatment has been shown to cause heavy emotional burdens on the women receiving it since it requires them to face many challenges derived from the intervention. Nevertheless, current existing scales lack effective items that can reflect the distress of these women. The aim of this study was to develop a reliable instrument to assess the distress of women experiencing AAR. Method The Prenatal Activity Restriction Stress Questionnaire (PARSQ) was developed according to comprehensive literature review, women’s interviews, and existing pregnancy-special stress scales from August 2016 to July 2017 in southern Taiwan. Six experts evaluated its content validity; the Rasch rating scale model (RSM) was used to examine its item-fit, dimensionality, and reliability with 200 women with AAR experience. Furthermore, the concurrent validity was assessed through computing the correlation of AAR women’s scores on the PARSQ and Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), and discriminant validity of the PARSQ was assessed to compare the scores’ differences between the AAR women and the healthy pregnant women. Results The PARSQ was constructed with 23 items in the 4-dimensional scale: Role function changes (8 items), Fetal safety and health (5 items), Physical and psychological care issues (5 items), and Socioeconomic and medical issues (5 items). It was confirmed to have satisfactory content vitality (CVI = 0.78 to 1.0), reasonable item-fit (0.77 to 1.51), and good reliability in RSM model, as well as adequate concurrent validity (p = 0.005) and discriminant validity (p < 0.001). Conclusions Understanding the distress of women undergoing AAR is necessary for developing appropriate prenatal care to assist women in coping with their situation to alleviate their emotional burdens. The developed PARSQ with satisfied psychometric properties can be an informative instrument for clinicians/researchers to assess the specific stress of pregnant women with AAR.

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