TY - JOUR

T1 - Cross-cultural adaption, translation and reliability tests of the Danish version of the Pregnancy Exercise Self-Efficacy Scale

AU - Bendix, Emma J.

AU - Kroner, Freja Holmberg

AU - Knudsen, Signe de Place

AU - Bendix, Jane M.

AU - Molsted, Stig

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - Objective: Self-efficacy has been shown to influence initiating and maintaining physical activity. Pregnancy often leads to a decline in physical activity and exercise self-efficacy assessments could be a tool to help women stay active during pregnancy. The Pregnancy Exercise Self-Efficacy Scale (P-ESES) is an English questionnaire assessing the self-efficacy in pregnant women to perform physical activity. The aim of this study was to translate the P-ESES questionnaire into a valid and reliable Danish version, P-ESES-DK.Study design: The study included a qualitative design for the validation of the questionnaire and a prospective longitudinal observational study for the reliability testing.Main outcome measures: The questionnaire was translated into Danish in a four-stage process with translation, back-translation and synthesis. The pre-final version was tested by eight women and changes were made to complete the final version of P-ESES-DK. The reliability testing was performed using a test-retest analysis of PESES-DK with 75 Danish pregnant women. Reliability was assessed using Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC), Cronbach's alpha and agreement was visualized using a Bland-Altman plot.Results: The questionnaire was found to have a good content validity. The assessment of the test re-test reliability showed an ICC of 0.809 and a Cronbach's alpha of the test and re-test were 0.839 and 0.869, respectively. The Bland-Altman plot showed that 93.9% of the answers were within the 95% limits of agreement.Conclusions: The Danish version of P-ESES was found to be both reliable and valid. Thus, it can be used as a helpful tool to measure self-efficacy related to physical activity during pregnancy.

AB - Objective: Self-efficacy has been shown to influence initiating and maintaining physical activity. Pregnancy often leads to a decline in physical activity and exercise self-efficacy assessments could be a tool to help women stay active during pregnancy. The Pregnancy Exercise Self-Efficacy Scale (P-ESES) is an English questionnaire assessing the self-efficacy in pregnant women to perform physical activity. The aim of this study was to translate the P-ESES questionnaire into a valid and reliable Danish version, P-ESES-DK.Study design: The study included a qualitative design for the validation of the questionnaire and a prospective longitudinal observational study for the reliability testing.Main outcome measures: The questionnaire was translated into Danish in a four-stage process with translation, back-translation and synthesis. The pre-final version was tested by eight women and changes were made to complete the final version of P-ESES-DK. The reliability testing was performed using a test-retest analysis of PESES-DK with 75 Danish pregnant women. Reliability was assessed using Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC), Cronbach's alpha and agreement was visualized using a Bland-Altman plot.Results: The questionnaire was found to have a good content validity. The assessment of the test re-test reliability showed an ICC of 0.809 and a Cronbach's alpha of the test and re-test were 0.839 and 0.869, respectively. The Bland-Altman plot showed that 93.9% of the answers were within the 95% limits of agreement.Conclusions: The Danish version of P-ESES was found to be both reliable and valid. Thus, it can be used as a helpful tool to measure self-efficacy related to physical activity during pregnancy.

KW - Self-efficacy

KW - Pregnancy

KW - Physical activity

KW - PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES

U2 - 10.1016/j.srhc.2020.100542

DO - 10.1016/j.srhc.2020.100542

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 32763830

VL - 26

JO - Sexual & Reproductive HealthCare

JF - Sexual & Reproductive HealthCare

SN - 1877-5756

M1 - 100542

ER -