Development and Validation of Attitude toward Gestational Surrogacy Scale in Iranian Infertile Couples
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Background
Surrogacy is one of the most challenging infertility treatments engaging ethical, psychological and social issues. Attitudes survey plays an important role to disclosure variant aspects of surrogacy, to help meeting legislative gaps and ambiguities, and to convert controversial dimensions surrounding surrogacy to a normative concept that eliminates stigma. The aim of this study is to develop a comprehensive scale for gestational surrogacy attitudes.Materials And Methods
Development process of gestational surrogacy attitudes scale (GSAS) performed based on a descriptive cross-sectional study and included a rich data pool gathered from literature reviews, a qualitative pilot study on 15 infertile couples (n=30), use of expert advisory panel (EAP) consisting of 20 members, as well as use of content validity through qualitative and quantitative study by the means of content validity ratio (CVR) and content validity index (CVI). Also internal consistence using Cronbachs alpha and test-retest reliability using intracalss correlation coefficient (ICC) were evaluated. Application of GSAS was tested in a cross-sectional study that was conducted on 200 infertile couples (n=400) at Royan Institute, Tehran, Iran, during 2014Results
Final version of GSAS had 30 items within five subscales including «acceptance of surrogacy», «Surrogacy and public attitudes», «Child born through surrogacy», «Surrogate mother», and «Intentional attitude and surrogacy future attempt». Content validity was represented with values of CVR=0. 73 and CVI =0. 98. Cronbachs alpha value was 0. 91 for the overall scale, while ICC value due to test-retest responses was 0. 89.Conclusion
Acceptable level of competency and capability of GSAS is significantly indicated; therefore, it seems to be an appropriate tool for the evaluation of gestational surrogacy attitudes in Iranian infertile couples. Keywords:
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English
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International Journal Of Fertility and Sterility, Volume:10 Issue: 1, Apr-Jun 2016
Pages:
113 to 119
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