Reproductive Health Assessment Scale for Married Adolescent Women (Mardi et al., 2021)
- Populations: Iranian Married Adolescent Women
- Age ranges: 10-18 M(sd) = 16.54 (1.84)
- Languages: Not Reported
- Countries: Iran
Items
Subscales:
- Sexual, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
- Psychosocial
- Family Planning
Items Not Reported, No Examples or Responses given
Scoring
not reported
Citations
Mardi A, Ebadi A, Behboodi-Moghadam Z, Abazari M, Nezhad-Dadgar N, Shadman A. Developing and psychometric evaluation of a reproductive health assessment scale for married adolescent women: An exploratory mixed-method study. Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res 2021;26:266-71.
Team comments
The authors note that this scale is “can also be used for evaluation of the various aspects of reproductive health among young women, it is strongly associated with a particular culture and cannot be generalized to other communities” (Mardi et al., 2021)
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Green: Face validity
- Unknown: Convergent validity
- Green: Construct validity
Reliability
- Green: Internal consistency
- Green: Test-retest
Ease of use
- Unknown: Readability
Definitions
Face validity: How well a measure appears to represent the construct it is supposed to be measuring.
Convergent validity: How well a measure correlates with other hypothetically-related measures.
Construct validity: The extent to which a measure reflects the construct it was designed to evaluate.
Internal consistency: The extent to which items in a scale capture aspects of the same construct.
Test-retest: The degree to which measurement scores are consistent over a short period of time (usually 2 weeks).
Readability: The ease with which a reader can understand the questionnaire items.
Key
- Green: Meets validation criteria
- Red: Does not meet validation criteria
- Unknown: Evidence not available
