Departamento de Psicología Social, del Trabajo y Diferencial, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Department of Women & Children's Health, School of Life Course & Population Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2023 Jul-Aug;83:59-65. doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2023.04.011. Epub 2023 Apr 24.
The transition to motherhood is a period of risk for the development of mood disorders. Postpartum anxiety has not been as thoroughly studied as other emotional disorders despite its impact on mothers and their babies. The absence of standardized programmes for early detection and specific tools for its diagnosis means postpartum anxiety is often underestimated or overshadowed. This study aimed to translate and validate the Postpartum Specific Anxiety Scale [PSAS] for the Spanish population and to analyse its reliability as an exploratory tool for specific anxiety in mothers.
Four stages were followed in this research: translation and back-translation to obtain the Spanish version [PSAS-ES]; preliminary pilot study to explore the comprehensibility and ease of responding the items (n = 53); convergent validity analyses (n = 644); and test-retest reliability (n = 234).
The PSAS-ES has shown to have good acceptability, convergent validity and high internal consistency with a Cronbach's α coefficient of 0.93 for the overall scale of PSAS. The four factors had good reliability. The results of test-retest was 0.86, indicating excellent stability over time in the first 16 weeks.
The psychometric results show that the PSAS-ES is a valid tool to explore and detect anxiety in Spanish mothers between 0 and 16 weeks postpartum.
从母亲的角色过渡到母亲的身份是情绪障碍发展的一个高危时期。尽管产后焦虑对母亲及其婴儿有影响，但它不如其他情绪障碍那样得到深入研究。缺乏早期检测的标准化方案和特定的诊断工具意味着产后焦虑经常被低估或被忽视。本研究旨在翻译和验证专门针对产后的焦虑量表（PSAS）的西班牙语版本，并分析其作为母亲特定焦虑的探索性工具的可靠性。
本研究分四个阶段进行：翻译和回译以获得西班牙语版本[PSAS-ES]；初步试点研究以探讨项目的理解和回答的难易程度（n=53）；收敛有效性分析（n=644）；以及测试-重测信度（n=234）。
PSAS-ES 表现出良好的可接受性、收敛有效性和高内部一致性，PSAS 整体量表的 Cronbach's α 系数为 0.93。四个因素具有良好的可靠性。重测的结果为 0.86，表明在最初的 16 周内具有出色的时间稳定性。
心理测量学结果表明，PSAS-ES 是一种有效的工具，可以探索和检测西班牙语母亲产后 0 至 16 周的焦虑。
