Measuring self‐efficacy to deal with infertility: Psychometric properties and confirmatory factor analysis of the portuguese version of the infertility self‐efficacy scale

Abstract

This study explores the psychometric properties and factor structure of the Portuguese version of the Infertility Self-Efficacy Scale (ISE-P), using translation and back-translation of the original version; principal component analysis; confirmatory factor analysis (CFA); and internal consistency, and test-retest reliability analyses. A total of 287 participants (156 women and 131 men) seeking medical treatment were recruited from public and private fertility centers. CFA revealed that the single-component model fit the data well. The instrument showed excellent internal consistency, good test-retest reliability, and correlations with other mental health measures suggesting good convergent and discriminant validity. In conclusion, The ISE-P is a valid and reliable Portuguese-language measure of perceived self-efficacy to cope with infertility.

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Spirituality, infertility‐related stress, and quality of life in Brazilian infertile couples: Analysis using the actor‐partner interdependence mediation model

“…The inability to conceive produces infertility‐related stress in both members of the infertile couple, affecting different domains (Cousineau & Domar, ) such as personal (e.g., physical and mental health, and life satisfaction), social (e.g., relationship with family, in‐laws, and friends), and marital (e.g., marital satisfaction and sexual pleasure) areas (Schmidt, Holstein, Christensen, & Boivin, ). Although women seem to experience infertility as a more stressful condition than their male partners (Kim, Shin, & Yun, ; Martins, Peterson, Almeida, Mesquita‐Guimarães, & Costa, ; Peterson, Pirritano, Christensen, & Schmidt, ), infertility‐related stress has an adverse effect on couples’ quality of life (Galhardo, Cuna, & Pinto‐Gouveia, ; Kim et al, ), and in individual infertile women and men (Luk & Loke, ; Mousavi, Masoumi, Keramat, Pooralajal, & Shobeiri, ), with infertile individuals reporting lower quality of life than the general population (Herrmann et al, ; Onat & Beji, ).…”

“…Spirituality has been associated with quality of life in several chronic conditions (Czekierda et al, ; Mishra et al, ; Salmoirago‐Blotcher et al, ). Meaning‐based coping processes, including spirituality, affect infertility‐related stress (Domar et al, ; Peterson et al, ; Volmer, Rösner, Toth, Strowitzki, & Wischmann, ), and infertility‐related stress has a negative impact on quality of life (Galhardo et al, ; Kim et al, ). Nevertheless, the relationship among spirituality, infertility‐related stress, and quality of life has not yet been investigated in infertile couples from a dyadic perspective.…”

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