Crossland Anna E, Munns Lydia B, Preston Catherine E J
University of York, United Kingdom.
PLoS One. 2025 May 7;20(5):e0322499. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0322499. eCollection 2025.
During pregnancy many elements of the bodily experience change, suggesting that measuring these constructs may require different instruments to those validated in the general population. This study reports an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis exploration of the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) in 716 pregnant women (mean gestation 26.4 weeks), from six different datasets who completed the MAIA online. Exploratory factor analysis condensed the questionnaire from a 32- to a 19- item scale, with five factor structure, which best fitted the data. Key subscales of Trust, Attention Regulation, Self-Regulation and Not Distracting remained robust. The one remaining item from the Noticing subscale loaded heavily with the Emotional Awareness subscale. Subscales of Body Listening, Not Worrying and Noticing did not load and therefore were excluded as factors. This led to the development of the scale referred to as the MAIA-Preg, which demonstrated a good fit with a confirmatory factor analysis along with good subscale reliability (ω= 0.73 -0.92), and measurement invariance for second and third trimesters. The MAIA-Preg was also found to be a good fit for separate non-pregnant (N = 396) and postnatal (N = 174) samples and thus provides a reliable and valid measure, providing nuanced information about the bodily experience in perinatal populations, allowing comparisons of changes to interoceptive sensibility the perinatal period.
在孕期,身体体验的许多方面都会发生变化,这表明测量这些指标可能需要不同于在普通人群中验证过的工具。本研究报告了对716名孕妇(平均孕周26.4周)进行的内感受性觉知多维评估(MAIA)的探索性和验证性因素分析,这些孕妇来自六个不同的数据集,她们在线完成了MAIA评估。探索性因素分析将问卷从32项精简为19项量表,具有五因素结构,最能拟合数据。信任、注意力调节、自我调节和不分心等关键子量表仍然稳健。觉察子量表中剩下的一项与情绪觉知子量表有很高的载荷。身体倾听、不担忧和觉察等子量表没有载荷,因此被排除在因素之外。这导致了MAIA-Preg量表的开发,该量表在验证性因素分析中显示出良好的拟合度,子量表信度良好(ω=0.73 - 0.92),并且在孕中期和孕晚期具有测量不变性。还发现MAIA-Preg量表非常适合单独的非孕期样本(N = 396)和产后样本(N = 174),因此提供了一种可靠且有效的测量方法,能提供有关围产期人群身体体验的细微信息,从而能够比较围产期内感受性敏感性的变化。