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Gaining comprehensive data about sexual knowledge through surveys

BACKGROUND: Delivery of sexual health services rely on rigorous facts extracted from surveys, but often those facts cannot be available due to the lack of culturally-sensitive questionnaires. OBJECTIVE: our aim was to show the validity and reliability of the Persian version of the Acquisition of Sex...

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Autores principales: Karimian, Zahra, Merghati Khoei, Effat, Maasoumi, Raziyeh, Araban, Marzieh, Rasoulzadeh Bidgoli, Mahboobeh, Aghayan, Shahrokh, Azin, Seied Ali
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Publicado: Research and Clinical Center for Infertility 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5555042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28835941
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author Karimian, Zahra
Merghati Khoei, Effat
Maasoumi, Raziyeh
Araban, Marzieh
Rasoulzadeh Bidgoli, Mahboobeh
Aghayan, Shahrokh
Azin, Seied Ali
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Merghati Khoei, Effat
Maasoumi, Raziyeh
Araban, Marzieh
Rasoulzadeh Bidgoli, Mahboobeh
Aghayan, Shahrokh
Azin, Seied Ali
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description BACKGROUND: Delivery of sexual health services rely on rigorous facts extracted from surveys, but often those facts cannot be available due to the lack of culturally-sensitive questionnaires. OBJECTIVE: our aim was to show the validity and reliability of the Persian version of the Acquisition of Sexual Information Test (ASIT), a measure selected due to its assemblages with Iranian culture. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Forward-backward procedure was applied to translate the questionnaire. Cross-sectional study was carried out and psychometric properties of the Iranian version were tested in a thirty sample of reproductive-age women. Face validity was assessed by qualitative and quantitative methods. Content validity was also assessed by calculating two quantitative indicators as content validity index (CVI) and content validity ratio (CVR). Reliability was assessed by test-retest analyses. RESULTS: Impact score was 1.5, the majority of participants (83.3%) stated that the overall level of questionnaire was high but some of the questions were irrelevant to sexual knowledge. Many questions (90%) gained a CVR less than 0.56, and all of them gained CVIs lower than 0.7. Correlation in test-retest reliability was 0.85. CONCLUSION: sexual knowledge questionnaire seems to be culturally inappropriate for Iranian women. Although, we need survey data for assessing the evidence-based needs for sexual health and best practice, but the questions addressing various dimensions of sexuality must be culturally sensitive, comprehensive and appropriate. Our findings suggest that ASIT as a well-known measure should be used in Iranian population with caution.
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spelling pubmed-55550422017-08-23 Gaining comprehensive data about sexual knowledge through surveys Karimian, Zahra Merghati Khoei, Effat Maasoumi, Raziyeh Araban, Marzieh Rasoulzadeh Bidgoli, Mahboobeh Aghayan, Shahrokh Azin, Seied Ali Int J Reprod Biomed Original Article BACKGROUND: Delivery of sexual health services rely on rigorous facts extracted from surveys, but often those facts cannot be available due to the lack of culturally-sensitive questionnaires. OBJECTIVE: our aim was to show the validity and reliability of the Persian version of the Acquisition of Sexual Information Test (ASIT), a measure selected due to its assemblages with Iranian culture. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Forward-backward procedure was applied to translate the questionnaire. Cross-sectional study was carried out and psychometric properties of the Iranian version were tested in a thirty sample of reproductive-age women. Face validity was assessed by qualitative and quantitative methods. Content validity was also assessed by calculating two quantitative indicators as content validity index (CVI) and content validity ratio (CVR). Reliability was assessed by test-retest analyses. RESULTS: Impact score was 1.5, the majority of participants (83.3%) stated that the overall level of questionnaire was high but some of the questions were irrelevant to sexual knowledge. Many questions (90%) gained a CVR less than 0.56, and all of them gained CVIs lower than 0.7. Correlation in test-retest reliability was 0.85. CONCLUSION: sexual knowledge questionnaire seems to be culturally inappropriate for Iranian women. Although, we need survey data for assessing the evidence-based needs for sexual health and best practice, but the questions addressing various dimensions of sexuality must be culturally sensitive, comprehensive and appropriate. Our findings suggest that ASIT as a well-known measure should be used in Iranian population with caution. Research and Clinical Center for Infertility 2017-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5555042/ /pubmed/28835941 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) ) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rasoulzadeh Bidgoli, Mahboobeh
Aghayan, Shahrokh
Azin, Seied Ali
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28835941
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