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Development and validation of the attitude towards Surrogacy Scale in a polish sample
BACKGROUND: Surrogacy is one of the options in reproductive medicine that raises a lot of ethical, legal and psychological controversy. Surveying attitudes toward surrogacy plays an important role in building awareness of this phenomenon in the society, which may help eliminate its stigma. In this s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10239602/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37270565 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-023-05751-x |
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author | Lutkiewicz, Karolina Bieleninik, Łucja Jurek, Paweł Bidzan, Mariola |
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description | BACKGROUND: Surrogacy is one of the options in reproductive medicine that raises a lot of ethical, legal and psychological controversy. Surveying attitudes toward surrogacy plays an important role in building awareness of this phenomenon in the society, which may help eliminate its stigma. In this study authors aimed to develop and validate a scale to assess the attitudes towards surrogacy. METHODS: In this study cross-sectional design was implemented. Development process of the Attitude towards Surrogacy Scale (ATSS) included items development based on literature reviews, other existing questionnaires, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and reliability analysis using internal consistence coefficients. A pilot study using adult members of the public was conducted after consultation with the Expert Advisory Panel Board. The final survey, which was used in this study, consisted of 24 items, which were organized into the four subscales: general opinion on surrogacy and its social context (7 items), financing and legalizing surrogacy (8 items), the acceptance of surrogacy (4 items), and attitudes towards the intended parents and children born through surrogacy (5 items). 442 individuals participated in this study. RESULTS: The final version of Attitude towards Surrogacy Scale (ATSS) consists of 15 items, grouped in three subscales. Final version of the ATSS showed that the three-factor model indicated an acceptable model fit: Chi-square = 320.46, p < 0.01, df = 87, CFI = 0.94, TLI = 0.92, RMSEA = 0.078 (90% C.I.: 0.070–0.086), SRMR = 0.040 Reliability was assessed by calculating the McDonald's omega that ranged from 0.74 for the Surrogacy ethical context subscale to 0.94 for the overall ATSS score. CONCLUSION: ATSS was developed to measure general attitude toward surrogacy with satisfying psychometric properties. The analysis of socio-demographic variables with ATSS showed that the most significant predictor of the general attitude towards surrogacy, and three aspects of surrogacy was being a religious person (profess a Catholic religion or profess another religion). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12884-023-05751-x. |
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spelling | pubmed-102396022023-06-05 Development and validation of the attitude towards Surrogacy Scale in a polish sample Lutkiewicz, Karolina Bieleninik, Łucja Jurek, Paweł Bidzan, Mariola BMC Pregnancy Childbirth Research Article BACKGROUND: Surrogacy is one of the options in reproductive medicine that raises a lot of ethical, legal and psychological controversy. Surveying attitudes toward surrogacy plays an important role in building awareness of this phenomenon in the society, which may help eliminate its stigma. In this study authors aimed to develop and validate a scale to assess the attitudes towards surrogacy. METHODS: In this study cross-sectional design was implemented. Development process of the Attitude towards Surrogacy Scale (ATSS) included items development based on literature reviews, other existing questionnaires, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and reliability analysis using internal consistence coefficients. A pilot study using adult members of the public was conducted after consultation with the Expert Advisory Panel Board. The final survey, which was used in this study, consisted of 24 items, which were organized into the four subscales: general opinion on surrogacy and its social context (7 items), financing and legalizing surrogacy (8 items), the acceptance of surrogacy (4 items), and attitudes towards the intended parents and children born through surrogacy (5 items). 442 individuals participated in this study. RESULTS: The final version of Attitude towards Surrogacy Scale (ATSS) consists of 15 items, grouped in three subscales. Final version of the ATSS showed that the three-factor model indicated an acceptable model fit: Chi-square = 320.46, p < 0.01, df = 87, CFI = 0.94, TLI = 0.92, RMSEA = 0.078 (90% C.I.: 0.070–0.086), SRMR = 0.040 Reliability was assessed by calculating the McDonald's omega that ranged from 0.74 for the Surrogacy ethical context subscale to 0.94 for the overall ATSS score. CONCLUSION: ATSS was developed to measure general attitude toward surrogacy with satisfying psychometric properties. The analysis of socio-demographic variables with ATSS showed that the most significant predictor of the general attitude towards surrogacy, and three aspects of surrogacy was being a religious person (profess a Catholic religion or profess another religion). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12884-023-05751-x. BioMed Central 2023-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10239602/ /pubmed/37270565 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-023-05751-x Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access 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. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Lutkiewicz, Karolina Bieleninik, Łucja Jurek, Paweł Bidzan, Mariola Development and validation of the attitude towards Surrogacy Scale in a polish sample |
title | Development and validation of the attitude towards Surrogacy Scale in a polish sample |
title_full | Development and validation of the attitude towards Surrogacy Scale in a polish sample |
title_fullStr | Development and validation of the attitude towards Surrogacy Scale in a polish sample |
title_full_unstemmed | Development and validation of the attitude towards Surrogacy Scale in a polish sample |
title_short | Development and validation of the attitude towards Surrogacy Scale in a polish sample |
title_sort | development and validation of the attitude towards surrogacy scale in a polish sample |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10239602/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37270565 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-023-05751-x |
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