Kumari Archana, Ranjan Piyush, Kaur Divjyot, Anwar Wareesha, Malhotra Anita, Upadhyay Ashish Datt, Vikram Naval Kishore, Meena Ved Prakash, Baitha Upendra, Kaloiya Gauri Shankar
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India.
J Obstet Gynaecol India. 2022 Apr;72(2):160-167. doi: 10.1007/s13224-022-01631-0. Epub 2022 Mar 29.
Postpartum period is associated with significant weight retention and weight gain. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a comprehensive questionnaire to assess the risk factors, facilitators, and barriers to postpartum weight management.
The development and validation were done in five major steps by applying a mixed-method study design. Items were generated through literature review, focus group discussions, and in-depth interviews, followed by the assessment of content validity, face validity, construct validity, and reliability.
The final questionnaire comprises 36 items which are split into five major domains assessing perceptions related to body weight, eating behaviour, physical activity, sleep pattern, and beliefs/myths associated with postpartum period. The questionnaire has a satisfactory construct validity through factor analysis (65.12) and good internal consistency and reliability with a Cronbach's alpha of 0.79.
This is a comprehensive tool to assess the risk factors, facilitators, and barriers to postpartum weight management and will aid in developing women centric strategies to curb the problem.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13224-022-01631-0.
产后时期与显著的体重滞留和体重增加有关。本研究的目的是开发并验证一份综合问卷，以评估产后体重管理的风险因素、促进因素和障碍。
采用混合方法研究设计，分五个主要步骤进行开发和验证。通过文献综述、焦点小组讨论和深入访谈生成条目，随后评估内容效度、表面效度、结构效度和信度。
最终问卷包含36个条目，分为五个主要领域，评估与体重、饮食行为、身体活动、睡眠模式以及与产后时期相关的信念/误区有关的认知。通过因子分析（65.12），该问卷具有令人满意的结构效度，内部一致性良好且信度较高，克朗巴哈系数为0.79。
这是一个评估产后体重管理的风险因素、促进因素和障碍的综合工具，将有助于制定以女性为中心的策略来解决这一问题。
在线版本包含可在10.1007/s13224-022-01631-0获取的补充材料。
