GEÇKİL, Emine Necmettin Erbakan Üniversitesi - Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi - Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hast Hemş AD, Turkey , KOÇAK, Vesile Selguk Universitesi - Saglik Bilimleri Fakultesi - Dogum ve Kadin Hastaliklari Hemsireligi AD, Turkey , ALTUNTUĞ, Kamile Necmettin Erbakan Universitesi - Saglik Bilimleri Fakultesi - Dogum ve Kadin Hast Hemş AD, Turkey , EGE, Emel Necmettin Erbakan Universitesi - Saglik Bilimleri Fakultesi - Doğum ve Kadın Hast Hemş AD, Turkey

MOTHERS’ POSTNATAL SENSE OF SECURITY SCALE: VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY

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Aim: The aim of the study is to adaptation into Turkish of the Mothers’ Postnatal Sense of Security Scale (PPSS) developed by Eva K Persson et al. (2007) for evaluating mothers’ sense of security during postnatal first week. Method: This methodological study is to test the validity and reliability of the Mothers Sense of Security Scale. The samples of the study consist of 222 mothers who were on the postnatal first week. For the Construct validity was tested with a language validity (experts view), content validity index, and confirmatory factor analyses. For the reliability the internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha), item analysis and with unchangeably for the times (test re-test) were used Results and Conclusion: (Content Validity Index) CVI score was found to be 0.89. This value showed that content validity of scale is efficient. Confirmatory factor analysis were found X^2=229.04 (df=129), X2/df =1.78 and RMSEA=0.059 so the model signs good/perfect in unison. It is found that mean scores of scale’s items changed from 2.31±1.10 to 3.41±.80, the item-factor loads changed from .29 to .89 and differences of 27% low-up were significant for all the items (p 0.001). Total Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of the scale was detected as .84 and correlation of test re-test was detected as .93. The results showed that the Turkish version of Mothers’ Postnatal Sense of Security Scale is valid and reliable scale.

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Postnatal period , mothers , sense of security , nurse , scale adoptation

Journal Of Anatolia Nursing an‎d Health Sciences

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