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Reliability and validity study of the Spanish adaptation of the "Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire" (W-DEQ-A).
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Development of a Multidimensional Predictive Model of Dystocic Labor (MPM-PD): Pilot Study on the Association of Physical Condition and Psychosocial Factors With the Completion of Labor and the Success of Breastfeeding.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The psychometric properties of fear of childbirth instruments: a systematic review.Reproductive health · 2024Pooled it
- Convergent validity between two questionnaires that evaluate fear of childbirth validated in spanish: childbirth fear questionnaire (CFQ-e) and Wijma delivery expectancy questionnaire (WDEQ-A-Sp).BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Association between lumbopelvic pain in pregnancy and fear of childbirth: a multicenter cross-sectional case-control study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Fear of child birth and its associated factors among pregnant women in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis.Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology · 2025Review
- Pregnancy variables that impact postpartum quality of life: a multicenter prospective study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Psychosocial Determinants of Childbirth Fear Among Asian Women: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Validity and reliability of the Greek version of Wijma delivery expectancy/experience questionnaire (Version A) among low-risk pregnant women.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Does the birth plan match what is relevant to women? Preferences of Spanish women when giving birth.BMC women's health · 2024Article
- Factors influencing childbirth fear among Asian women: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Development and evaluation of the psychometric properties of a digital questionnaire for the evaluation of perinatal psychosocial needs.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- Validating the use of the Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire in Mainland China: a descriptive, cross-sectional study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Article
- Attitudes toward medicalization in childbirth and their relationship with locus of control and coping in a Spanish population.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Article
- Validation and Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Fear of Childbirth Questionnaire (CFQ-e).Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Validity and reliability of the Spanish version of the "Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire" (W-DEQ-B).PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
The Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire (W-DEQ-A) is an instrument that evaluates fear of childbirth through the expectations of women in relation to childbirth and their experience during the birth. The objective of this study was to translate the W-DEQ-A into Spanish and analyse its reliability and validity. The study was carried out in two phases: (1) adapting the questionnaire to Spanish and (2) a transversal study in a sample of 273 pregnant women in the Sexual and Reproductive Health centres in the Metropolitan Northern Barcelona in Catalonia (Spain). The psychometric properties were analysed in terms of reliability and construct validity. The confirmatory factorial analysis did not confirm the unidimensionality of the original structure of the WDEQ-A, as happened with the other studies in which it has previously been validated. The result of the exploratory factorial analysis suggests four factors, or dimensions, very similar but not identical to those obtained in other analysis studies of the W-DEQ-A. The Cronbach alpha and the omega scale were also adequate for all the scales and for each of the dimensions. The results of this study confirm the findings of other studies that suggest that the W-DEQ-A is multi-dimensional. In the Spanish version of the W-DEQ-A four dimensions have been identified to explore fear of childbirth in pregnant women. The Spanish version of the WDEQ-A (WDEQ-A-Sp) is reliable and valid for the measurement of fear of childbirth in clinical practice and for use in future research.
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