Nursing, Physiotherapy, and Medicine Department, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Oct 14;19(20):13228. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192013228.
The main aim of this study was to design and validate a questionnaire in Spanish to acknowledge the perception of the sexuality of women with intellectual disabilities. We sought to cover specific spheres of sexuality, such as sexual capacity, decision-making capacity, sexual disinhibition, and sexual education and quality of life.
A questionnaire was developed based on a literature review. Validation was performed using content validation through a panel of experts; construct validation was performed using exploratory and confirmatory factorial analyses; reliability tests were also performed, using Cronbach's Alpha and the two-halves test.
Two-hundred forty-four participants pilot tested the initial 34-item questionnaire. After content validation and exploratory factorial analysis, the resulting 10-item questionnaire showed four domains, with Cronbach's Alpha values between 0.69 and 0.82. Confirmatory factorial analysis confirmed the domains, and the model's goodness-of-fit tests were adequate.
The final ten-item scale developed in this research proved to be a valid and reliable instrument, as it has good psychometric properties of both validity and reliability. Thus, researchers interested in investigating the social perception of the sexuality of women with intellectual disabilities can use this tool. Future research can extend the validity of this scale to other languages and settings.
本研究的主要目的是设计并验证一份西班牙语问卷,以了解智障女性的性感知。我们旨在涵盖性领域的特定方面,如性能力、决策能力、性抑制和性教育以及生活质量。
问卷基于文献综述开发。采用专家小组进行内容验证进行验证;采用探索性和验证性因子分析进行结构验证;还进行了可靠性测试,使用 Cronbach 的 Alpha 和两半测试。
244 名参与者对初始的 34 项问卷进行了试点测试。经过内容验证和探索性因子分析,最终的 10 项问卷显示了四个领域,Cronbach 的 Alpha 值在 0.69 到 0.82 之间。验证性因子分析证实了这些领域,模型的拟合度测试是合适的。
本研究开发的最终的 10 项量表被证明是一种有效且可靠的工具,因为它具有良好的信度和效度的心理测量学特性。因此,有兴趣研究智障女性的社会性感知的研究人员可以使用此工具。未来的研究可以将该量表的有效性扩展到其他语言和环境。