2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Developing a short version of the "Women-Centred Care" pregnancy questionnaire in multiple languages

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24890247
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Lifelong developmental nursing
Research Institution	St. Luke's College of Nursing
Principal Investigator	IIDA Mariko 聖路加国際大学, 看護学部, 助教 (90438854)
Project Period (FY)	2012-08-31 – 2014-03-31
Keywords	女性を中心としたケア / 尺度開発 / 助産ケア
Research Abstract	The purpose of this study was to develop a short version of the "Women-Centred Care (WCC)"-pregnancy questionnaire and translate it into English and Indonesian and test its validity and reliability. First, the original 50-item Japanese questionnaire was developed to a 23-item questionnaire (WCC-23J). Secondly, WCC-23J was translated into English (WCC-23E) and Indonesian (WCC-23I). Thirdly, data collection using these questionnaires was conducted. WCC-23E was distributed to 104 midwives in Tanzania and WCC-23I was distributed to 371 women in Indonesia. As a result, both of the questionnaires were able to explain the WCC concept with four factors and the Cronbach's alpha were both high which indicated high reliability.