Ilic Irena, Babic Goran, Sipetic Grujicic Sandra, Zivanovic Macuzic Ivana, Ravic-Nikolic Ana, Ilic Milena, Milicic Vesna
Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia.
PLoS One. 2025 Jun 3;20(6):e0325131. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0325131. eCollection 2025.
Women receiving abnormal Papanicolaou (Pap) findings often face psychosocial burden. This study aimed to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Process and Outcome Specific Measure (POSM) in women with abnormal Pap screening test in Serbia.
A cross-sectional study was conducted with 238 consecutive women attending cervical cancer screening. Exploratory factor analysis was used to determine the structure of the POSM, and Cronbach's alpha coefficient to assess internal consistency.
The factor analysis revealed two factors that explained 47.8% of variance: the first - Worry factor (4 items loaded onto the factor represented questions about worries), and the second - Information-Support factor (3 items loaded onto the factor represented questions about feeling informed well enough and being satisfied with support from others). The Cronbach's alpha coefficients for the Worry factor and the Information-Support factor were 0.572 and 0.428, respectively.
The Serbian version of the POSM could be a useful tool for assessing worry and information-support in women with abnormal Pap smear results.
接受巴氏涂片检查结果异常的女性常常面临心理社会负担。本研究旨在评估塞尔维亚版特定过程与结果测量量表(POSM)在巴氏涂片筛查结果异常女性中的有效性和可靠性。
对连续238名接受宫颈癌筛查的女性进行了横断面研究。采用探索性因素分析确定POSM的结构,并用克朗巴哈系数评估内部一致性。
因素分析揭示了两个解释47.8%方差的因素:第一个是担忧因素(4个项目加载到该因素上,代表关于担忧的问题),第二个是信息 - 支持因素(3个项目加载到该因素上,代表关于感觉信息充足程度以及对他人支持满意度的问题)。担忧因素和信息 - 支持因素的克朗巴哈系数分别为0.572和0.428。
塞尔维亚版POSM可能是评估巴氏涂片结果异常女性担忧和信息 - 支持情况的有用工具。