Τίτλος:
Appraisal of Life Events scale in a sample of Greek infertile women
undergoing fertility treatment: A confirmatory factor analysis
Γλώσσες Τεκμηρίου:
Αγγλικά
Περίληψη:
Objective: to examine the construct validity of the Greek version of the
Appraisal of Life Events (ALE) scale, originally developed by Ferguson
et al. (1999), in a sample of infertile women. As there are no data
concerning the validity of the ALE scale in infertile populations, a
special focus was placed on construct validity through confirmatory
factor analysis (CFA).
Setting: public hospital in Athens, Greece.
Design: cross-sectional study.
Participants: 160 women undergoing fertility treatment with in-vitro
fertilisation.
Methods: the ALE scale was ‘forward-backward’ translated from English to
Greek. The translated instrument was then administered to a set of
infertile women for pilot testing. CFA was used to test the construct
validity of the ALE scale.
Findings: CFA supported the superiority of a model with three correlated
first-order factors (challenge, threat and loss) and one second-order
factor (stress appraisal) that underlay the first-order factors of
threat and loss.
Conclusion: the ALE scale was found to have a multidimensional
structure.
Implications for practice: the assessment of infertility appraisal
during in-vitro fertilisation through a valid instrument may lead to the
identification of women who are at greater risk of experiencing high
stress, not only during fertility treatment but also during pregnancy
and postnatal period in case of a successful IVF treatment. (C) 2011
Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Συγγραφείς:
Gourounti, Kleanthi
Anagnostopoulos, Fotios
Alexias, Georgios
and Vaslamatzis, Grigorios
Εκδότης:
Elsevier Sci Ltd, Exeter, United Kingdom
Λέξεις-κλειδιά:
Primary appraisals; Infertility; Validation; Confirmatory factor
analysis
DOI:
10.1016/j.midw.2011.06.010
