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- Title
Psychometric Assessment of the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale-Short Form: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis in Malawian Mothers.
- Authors
Chipojola, Roselyn; Dennis, Cindy-Lee; Kuo, Shu-Yu
- Abstract
Background: Exclusive breastfeeding to 6 months postpartum has been related to breastfeeding self-efficacy in diverse populations. Globally, this is measured using the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale–Short Form (BSES-SF). Research Aim: To evaluate the psychometric properties of the BSES-SF among women in Malawi; and to examine the relationship between breastfeeding self-efficacy and demographic and health factors. Methods: The study design was a prospective, cross-sectional survey with a 2 week follow-up reliability check. Postpartum women (N = 180) were recruited at a maternity hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi. In addition to the BSES-SF, the World Health Organization's Quality of Life Scale (QoL) was also administered. Furthermore, confirmatory factor analysis, Cronbach's alpha, and Pearson's correlations were used to examine the construct validity, reliability, test-retest reliability, and convergent validity. Results: The confirmatory factor analysis supported a unidimensional structure of the Malawian version of the 12-item BSES-SF. Cronbach's alpha and the intra-class correlation coefficient were 0.79 and 0.75, respectively. BSES-SF scores had significant correlation with QoL domains (physical QoL: r = 0.31, p <.001; and environmental QoL: r = 0.22, p <.01). Participants' age, parity, and mode of delivery were positively correlated with breastfeeding self-efficacy scores. Conclusion: The findings of our study confirmed that the 12-item BSES-SF is a reliable and valid scale for assessing women's breastfeeding self-efficacy in Malawi.
- Subjects
MALAWI; RELIABILITY (Personality trait); STATISTICAL reliability; RESEARCH evaluation; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; PSYCHOLOGY of mothers; CROSS-sectional method; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF-efficacy; SURVEYS; CRONBACH'S alpha; PEARSON correlation (Statistics); MULTITRAIT multimethod techniques; BREASTFEEDING; PARITY (Obstetrics); QUALITY of life; FACTOR analysis; INTRACLASS correlation; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; RESEARCH funding; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors; DATA analysis software; LONGITUDINAL method
- Publication
Journal of Human Lactation, 2023, Vol 39, Issue 3, p397
- ISSN
0890-3344
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/08903344221127002