Psychometric properties of the hospital birth satisfaction scale

Birth in Brazil survey

Bibliographic Data

ID5166844
AuthorsDayana Dourado De Oliveira Costa (0000-0002-1157-1859, Universidade Federal do Maranhão), Veridiana Soares Ribeiro (0000-0003-4623-1499, Universidade Federal do Maranhão), Marizélia Rodrigues Costa Ribeiro (0000-0003-4289-4527, Universidade Federal do Maranhão), Ana Paula Esteves-Pereira (0000-0002-0236-2043, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Lucas Guimarães Cardoso De Sá (0000-0003-1656-0136, Universidade Federal do Maranhão), Joana Athayde Da Silva Cruz (0000-0002-0038-3449, Universidade Federal do Maranhão), Maria Do Carmo Leal (0000-0002-3047-515X, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Antonio Augusto Moura Da Silva (0000-0003-4968-5138, Universidade Federal do Maranhão)
Year2019
Volume35
Issue8
Pagese00154918-e00154918
Publication date2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCadernos de Saude Publica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0102-311X • E-ISSN: 1678-4464
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/0102-311x00154918
PMID31411273
OpenAlexW2967244746
SCIELO_PIDS0102-311X2019001004001
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited19

The objective of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the hospital birth satisfaction scale with data from the first follow-up interview of the Birth in Brazil survey. The 11 questions of the scale were asked by telephone up to six months after discharge in a stratified random sample of 16,109 women residing in all five regions of the country. The sample was randomly divided into two halves. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was applied to the first half in order to identify the scale's factorial structure. The scree plot suggested the scale to be one-dimensional. The EFA demonstrated a good fit of the one-dimensional model. Factor loadings were greater than 0.5 for all items, except for the mean time transpired between leaving the home and arriving at the maternity hospital, which was excluded from the next analysis. The confirmatory factor analysis applied to the sample's second half with the remaining ten items had a good fit and the factor loadings were > 0.50 with p-values < 0.001. The associations between birth satisfaction and the external variables, the mother's education level (standardized coefficient = 0.073; p = 0.035), private insurance (SC = 0.183; p < 0.001) and having a companion at some point during the hospitalization for labor (SC = 0.193; p = 0.001) were all as expected. There was evidence of configural and metric invariance according to type of hospital (private or public) and type of delivery (cesarean or vaginal). These results showed that the hospital birth satisfaction scale in Brazil is a one-dimensional instrument composed of ten items

Birth order · Cartography · Confirmatory factor analysis · Exploratory factor analysis · Geography · Place of birth · Population · Psychometrics · Sample (material) · Scale (ratio) · Sociology · Statistics · Stratified sampling · Structural equation modeling · Telephone interview · Clinical Psychology · Demography · Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum · Mathematics · Medicine · Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare · Psychology