Hall, JA;
Stephenson, J;
Barrett, G;
(2021)
Evaluating the Chichewa version of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy in Malawi: a validation update.
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, Article 231. 10.1186/s13104-021-05645-1.
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the psychometric properties of the validated Chichewa version of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy in a large representative community-based sample in Malawi, a low-income country. We collected data on pregnancy intention from a cohort of 4244 pregnant women in Malawi using the validated Chichewa version of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy (LMUP). We evaluated the psychometric properties of the Chichewa LMUP using classical test theory and confirmatory factor analysis to re-assess the performance of items one and six, which had weaker performance in the original smaller, facility-based validation sample. RESULTS: The Chichewa version of the LMUP met all pre-set criteria for validation. There are now nine validations of the LMUP in different low-and-middle-income countries, confirming the validity and applicability of the LMUP in these settings.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Evaluating the Chichewa version of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy in Malawi: a validation update. |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s13104-021-05645-1 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05645-1 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Keywords: | Chichewa, London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy, Malawi, Measurement, Pregnancy intention, Psychometric, Validation, Female, Humans, London, Malawi, Pregnancy, Pregnancy, Unplanned, Psychometrics, Reproducibility of Results, Surveys and Questionnaires |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL EGA Institute for Womens Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL EGA Institute for Womens Health > Reproductive Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10129769 |
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