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Development and psychometric properties of social exclusion questionnaire for Iranian divorced women
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posted on 2017-05-01, 00:00 authored by F Zarei, M Solhi, E Merghati-Khoei, M H Taghdisi, D Shojaeizadeh, Ann TaketAnn Taket, R Masoomi, S NedjatBACKGROUND: Divorce, especially in women, could be assessed from socio-cultural perspective as well as psychological viewpoint. This assessment requires cultural adopted as well as valid and reliable questionnaire. This study aimed to develop and assess the psychometric properties of a questionnaire in order to address social consequences in Iranian divorced women. METHODS: This was an exploratory mixed method study conducted during 2012 to 2014. According to the grounded theory approach in the first phase, social exclusion was extracted as a core of understanding process in participants. Based on, 47 preliminary generated items reliability and validity were assessed. In the second phase, the divorced women were recruited from a safe community center in Tehran through convenience sampling. RESULTS: Exploratory factor analysis conducted on the questionnaires of 150 divorced women with mean age 41.76±8.49 yr, in that, indicated five dimensions, discriminative marital status, economic dependence on marital status, exclusionary marital status, and traumatic marital status health risks and, frightening marital status that jointly accounted for the 64% of the variance observed. An expert panel approved the face and content validity of the developed tool. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient and the Intra-class Correlation Coefficient were found to be 0.70 and 0.85, respectively. CONCLUSION: The present study provided a valid and reliable measure as Social Exclusion Questionnaire in Iranian divorced women (SEQ-IDW) to address social post-divorce consequences, which might help to improve women's social health.
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Iranian journal of public healthVolume
46Issue
5Pagination
640 - 649Publisher
Tehran University of Medical SciencesLocation
Tehran, IranISSN
2251-6085eISSN
2251-6093Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal articleCopyright notice
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