Abstract:

The purpose of this study was to adapt the Perinatal Grief Intensity Scale into Turkish and examine its validity and reliability. The research was a methodological study which the sample of which consisted of 150 women with perinatal loss. The research was carried out in a medical faculty located in Istanbul. Content validity, item analysis, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and internal consistency coefficient were used for testing the reliability and validity of the scale. Content validity index of PYYO found range of between 0.91-1.00, and Content validity rate of the scale was 0.95. Item total score correlations of the scale ranged between 0.188 from 0.890. The Cronbach's α value of the scale was found to be 0.687, and it ranged from 0.553 to 0.942 in the subscales. As a result of the validity and reliability analyzes, 3-factors structure explaining 68.255% of the total variance of the scale was obtained according to the explanatory factor analysis. Goodness of fit statistics was determined that the scale confirm the original structure. As a result of the research findings, it was determined that the Perinatal Grief Intensity Scale used in western culture, is not a reliable instrument for Turkish and Turkish culture, and that especially the Congruence subscale is a low reliability instrument.

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