The Maternal Postpartum Quality of Life Instrument (MPQOL-I): development and psychometric evaluation in an exploratory sequential mixed-method study

Mokhtaryan‐Gilani, Tahereh; Kariman, Nourossadat; Nia, Hamid Sharif; Doulabi, Mahbobeh Ahmadi; Nasiri, Malihe

doi:10.1186/s12884-022-04900-y

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“…A study conducted by Mokhtaryan-Gilani et al demonstrated that breastfeeding women obtained higher scores in questionnaires assessing the quality of life [43]. The frequency of breastfeeding is an important modifying factor.…”

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Quality of Life and Sexual Satisfaction in the Early Period of Motherhood—A Cross-Sectional Preliminary Study

Florkiewicz-Danel,

Zaręba,

Ciebiera

et al. 2023

JCM

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The aim of the study was to assess the impact of breastfeeding-related fatigue and family support on the sexuality and quality of life of mothers during early motherhood. A cross-sectional preliminary study was conducted between 1 October 2021 and 15 May 2022 in 65 women being in early postpartum period. We used the authors’ questionnaire developed for the purposes of the study; the Sexual Satisfaction Scale for Women—SSS-W; the Mell–Krat scale for women; and the General Health Questionnaire—GHQ28. A significant negative correlation was found between the age of the patients and the reduction in somatic symptoms (GHQ28 questionnaire) (r = −0.315, p = 0.011). Women working professionally achieved significantly higher results in the SSS-W contentment category (r = 0.313, p = 0.014). Frequent sexual activity reduced disorders in social functioning (the GHQ28 questionnaire) (r = −0.107, p = 0.283). Women who breastfed up to 5 times a day (p = 0.033) reached significantly higher SSS-W scores in terms of communication. The partner’s help significantly contributed to higher sexual satisfaction in the aspect of compatibility (p = 0.004) and the overall level of satisfaction determined with the SSS-W questionnaire (p = 0.016). The presented study suggests that older mothers who are employed and supported by a partner have a higher level of contentment, sexual satisfaction and quality of life.

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Quality of Life and Sexual Satisfaction in the Early Period of Motherhood—A Cross-Sectional Preliminary Study

Florkiewicz-Danel,

Zaręba,

Ciebiera

et al. 2023

JCM

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“…Specifically, in addition to measuring the impact of diseases, the QDIS-7 can also measure the impact of symptoms (headache and low-back pain in the present study), treatments (21,22), exposures (23,24), and any other specifiable (25) status or condition that might affect regular daily physical, psychological, or social functioning. Applications of the QDIS-7 may include QOL associated with environmental pollution, healthcare workers' QOL, maternal postpartum QOL, and caregivers' QOL, (23,24,(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34). None of those examples is a disease, but the QDIS-7 can be used to quantify the specific impact of each one on QOL, using the same metric as for asthma, diabetes, etc.…”

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The QDIS-7: one scale for measuring the disease-specific quality-of-life impact of different medical conditions

Fukuhara,

Green,

Wakita

et al. 2024

Preprint

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BackgroundWhen studying health-related quality of life (QOL), disease-specific instruments have the advantage of measuring the unique effects of particular medical conditions. Almost every disease-specific QOL instrument uses its own metric, and measures QOL in its own content areas. The unfortunate result is that scores from different disease-specific QOL instruments cannot be compared. In contrast, the seven-item Quality of Life Disease Impact Scale (QDIS-7) has response choices on only one scale (one metric) and its content is standardized. Thus, the QDIS-7 should allow disease-specific QOL to be compared across different diseases. We therefore tested whether, unlike scores from the traditional mutually-incompatible metrics, those from the single-metric QDIS-7 are comparable across diseases.MethodsResponses to the QDIS-7 questions (regarding global QOL, physical functioning, role functioning, social functioning, vitality, mental health, and health outlook) were used to compute a single score, based on an item-response model. When the QDIS-7 was completed by respondents with different diseases, the content of the question-items was the same, and the only difference was the name of the disease to which the respondents explicitly attributed any impact on their QOL. In an online survey, 2,627 adults who had sought care for headache, low-back pain, asthma, or diabetes, each responded to the QDIS-7 and to a previously-validated disease-specific QOL instrument (“legacy scale”) that was developed to measure QOL in their specific disease. We examined the slopes from four regressions of legacy-scale scores on QDIS-7 scores. Similarity of those slopes would support the hypothesis that the QDIS-7 enables quantitative comparisons of disease-specific QOL across those four different medical conditions.ResultsFor all four groups, the regression-line slopes were nearly the same: 0.12 to 0.14 legacy-scale standard deviations per 1-point difference in QDIS-7 score. Thus, each 10-point difference in QDIS-7 scores is equal to slightly more than one standard-deviation difference in legacy-scale scores, forall fourgroups.ConclusionsThe relationships of score differences on the legacy measures to score differences on the QDIS-7 (i.e., the slopes) were similar across the four groups, which is consistent with the idea that the QDIS-7 enables comparisons of disease-specific QOL across different medical conditions.

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“…It is indisputable that there are large numbers of tools available for the postpartum period, aimed at identifying signs and symptoms of a physical and psychological nature. There are instruments – self-administered or requiring administration by a professional – to identify aspects such as depression and/or anxiety [ 12 – 16 ], evaluate urinary incontinence [ 17 ], efficacy with breastfeeding [ 18 – 20 ], quality of life [ 21 – 24 ], fatigue [ 25 ], quality of sleep [ 26 ], quality of sexual relations [ 27 ], social support [ 28 ], and the mother–child bond [ 29 , 30 ].…”

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Development and evaluation of the psychometric properties of a digital questionnaire for the self-management of health and well-being in the postpartum period

Bully,

Artieta-Pinedo,

Paz-Pascual

et al. 2023

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth

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Background Despite the fact that the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030) recognises the special importance of care for women during the postpartum period, thus highlighting the need to identify and measure any condition that may affect the welfare of pregnant women in any way, this is one of the most neglected stages in the health system. Given the absence in our area of global, efficient instruments, the objective of this study was to design a complete, specific measurement tool with good metric qualities in digital format for the evaluation of self-reported health and well-being during the puerperium, to conform to what was proposed by the ICHOM. Methods A cross-sectional study was carried out to evaluate the psychometric characteristics of a digital measurement tool. The development of the tool was carried out in 4 steps, following the recommendations of the International Test Commission. It was tested on 280 puerperas attending primary healthcare appointments in the Basque Healthcare System (Osakidetza), and they did the newly created survey, answering all the questions that had been selected as the gold standard. The average age of the women was 34.93 (SD = 4.80). The analysis of the psychometric characteristics was based on mixed procedures of expert judgment (a focus group of healthcare professionals, an item evaluation questionnaire and interviews with users) and quantitative evaluations (EFA, CFA, and correlation with gold standard, ordinal alpha and McDonald’s omega). Results The final version of the tool comprised 99 items that evaluate functional state, incontinence, sexuality, breastfeeding, adaptation to the role of mother and mental health, and all of these questions can be used globally or partially. It was found that the scores were valid and reliable, which gives metric guarantees for using the tool in our area. Conclusions The use of this comprehensive concise tool with good psychometric properties will allow women to take stock of their situation, assess if they have the necessary resources, in psychological and social terms, and work together with midwives and other healthcare professionals on the most deficient areas.

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The Maternal Postpartum Quality of Life Instrument (MPQOL-I): development and psychometric evaluation in an exploratory sequential mixed-method study

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References 34 publications

Quality of Life and Sexual Satisfaction in the Early Period of Motherhood—A Cross-Sectional Preliminary Study

Quality of Life and Sexual Satisfaction in the Early Period of Motherhood—A Cross-Sectional Preliminary Study

The QDIS-7: one scale for measuring the disease-specific quality-of-life impact of different medical conditions

Development and evaluation of the psychometric properties of a digital questionnaire for the self-management of health and well-being in the postpartum period

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