Jansson Caroline, Volgsten Helena, Huffman Carolyn, Skoog Svanberg Agneta, Swanson Kristen M, Stavreus-Evers Anneli
a Department of Women's and Children's Health , Uppsala University , Uppsala , Sweden.
b Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences , Uppsala University , Uppsala , Sweden.
Eur J Contracept Reprod Health Care. 2017 Dec;22(6):412-417. doi: 10.1080/13625187.2017.1409346. Epub 2017 Dec 18.
There is a lack of knowledge in women's and men's experience of miscarriage. The Revised Impact of Miscarriage Scale (RIMS) has been used in United States to measure the experiences after miscarriage. The first objective was to test the consistency of RIMS for Swedish conditions. The second purpose of this study was to compare Swedish and American couples' experience of miscarriage by use of the RIMS.
Forward and back translation was used for translating RIMS into Swedish. This is a hospital-based comparative study including Swedish couples (n = 70) and American couples (n = 70). The couples were matched by the women's age, week of miscarriage and number of children. All participants answered socio-demographic, fertility and depression-scale questions in addition to RIMS.
Cronbach's alpha analysis was above 0.650, the mean value was 0.824. There was no significant difference between the Swedish and American participants on the factors 'Isolation/Guilt' and 'Devastating event', but the Swedish women and men scored significantly lower on the factor 'Loss of baby' than the American women and men. The men, Swedish and American combined, scored lower than the women in all factors but the correlation within the couples was similar for both Swedish and American couples.
The high consistency between the countries suggests that the RIMS questionnaire is reliable for both women and men to be used in both countries and two of three factors were similar between the two countries.
对于女性和男性流产经历的了解尚显不足。修订后的流产影响量表（RIMS）已在美国用于衡量流产后的经历。第一个目标是测试RIMS在瑞典情况下的一致性。本研究的第二个目的是通过使用RIMS比较瑞典和美国夫妇的流产经历。
采用正向和反向翻译将RIMS翻译成瑞典语。这是一项基于医院的比较研究，包括瑞典夫妇（n = 70）和美国夫妇（n = 70）。夫妇们根据女性的年龄、流产周数和子女数量进行匹配。除了RIMS之外，所有参与者还回答了社会人口统计学、生育和抑郁量表问题。
克朗巴哈系数分析高于0.650，平均值为0.824。瑞典和美国参与者在“孤立/内疚”和“灾难性事件”因素上没有显著差异，但瑞典女性和男性在“失去孩子”因素上的得分显著低于美国女性和男性。瑞典和美国男性的综合得分在所有因素上均低于女性，但瑞典和美国夫妇中夫妻之间的相关性相似。
两国之间的高度一致性表明，RIMS问卷对于两国的女性和男性都是可靠的，并且两国在三个因素中的两个因素上是相似的。
