Abstract

QUELOPANA DEL VALLE, Ana María; DIMMITT CHAMPION, Jane  and  SALAZAR GONZALEZ, 2Bertha Cecilia. Translation and Validation of the "Cuestionario de Beneficios y Barreras del Control Prenatal" in Mexican pregnant women. Index Enferm [online]. 2007, vol.16, n.57, pp.23-27. ISSN 1699-5988.

Objective: The main purpose of the present article is to describe the adaptation and validation process of the questionnaire of "Barriers, Motivators and Facilitators of Prenatal Care Utilization" to the Health Promotion Model (HPM) and to Mexican population. Methods: The original questionnaire was initially translated into Spanish. A meticulous content review of the translated instrument was conducted to ensure validity and coherence with the HPM. Items were grouped by subscales in congruence with the model. The Spanish translation, "Cuestionario de Beneficios y Barreras del Control Prenatal" was tested with 253 pregnant women receiving prenatal care in outpatient clinics in Monterrey, Mexico. Exploratory factorial analysis was performed to identify the groups or conglomerates of related variables. Reliability testing utilizing Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient was conducted for each subscale. Results: Subscale of Benefits revealed a single factor with explained variance of 41%; Barriers revealed seven factors with explained variance of 68%; and Attitude toward pregnancy revealed three factors with explained variance of 58%. All factors from the subscales maintained Eigenvalues above 1.0. Conclusions: The Cuestionario de Beneficios y Barreras del Control Prenatal obtained construct validity based on the HPM. The subscales obtained reliability coefficients over .70, considered acceptable for new psychosocial scales, confirming that the measurements maintained an internal coherence and integrated homogeneity of their items.

Keywords : Benefits and barriers to prenatal care; Health Promotion Model; Construct validity; Pregnant Mexican women.