Objective

To determine the validity and internal consistency of the instrument Attachment between parents and newborn children, spanish version as a result from the transcultural adaptation of the Maternal Attachment Inventory (MAI) by Mary Muller.

Materials and method

Methodological - psychometric descriptive study, whose facial and content validity was achieved with the participation of a panel of experts and 385 potential parents with low level of schooling. For the validity of construct and internal consistency the sample was 352 parents of full-term newborns.

Results

Facial validity for the general population showed a global and item understanding of more than 90%, and a higher acceptability rate in the three categories valued; likewise, the Kapa and Fleiss index showed inter-concordance for each of the items above 0.69. The validity of global content has a strong pertinence and relevance with a Kapa and Fleiss index of 0.71 and 0.77 respectively. In the validity of the construct, the exploratory factor analysis yielded four factors with a total variance explained by the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Index (KMO) of 73%, and the internal consistency by Cronbach's Alpha was 0.7 for the total of the scale.

Conclusions:

The Attachment between parents and newborn children instrument is valid and reliable to measure the affective attachment in the Colombian context whose use favors the practice of evidence-based nursing in diverse contexts such as Neonatal Care Units and in ambulatory practice.

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