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Psychometric properties of Haj-Yahia’s questionnaire of violence against women in a sample of married women in Tehran, Iran

BACKGROUND: Abuse against women causes great suffering for the victims and is an important health problem among women. To date, a few screening instruments for wife abuse exist for married women in Iran, but they only assess some of the wife abuse components. The aim of this study was to investigate...

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Autores principales: Sotoodeh Ghorbani, Sahar, Ghaffari, Mohtasham, Hashemi Nazari, Seyed Saeed
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8900410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35255890
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12831-8
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Ghaffari, Mohtasham
Hashemi Nazari, Seyed Saeed
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description BACKGROUND: Abuse against women causes great suffering for the victims and is an important health problem among women. To date, a few screening instruments for wife abuse exist for married women in Iran, but they only assess some of the wife abuse components. The aim of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties and factor structure of the Haj-Yahia’s Questionnaire in a sample of married women residing in Tehran. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study with a population consisting of married women in Tehran, among which 471 individuals were selected using convenience sampling method. Psychometric properties of the questionnaire were evaluated using face validity, content validity, construct validity, internal consistency, and stability. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed using the weighted least square mean and variance adjusted. We performed confirmatory factor analysis using Mplus version 8 software and for other calculations, we used STATA V14. RESULTS: The quantitative results of face validity and content validity indicated that all items of the questionnaire were in acceptable range, and were retained in the study. In CFA results, the model fit indices were acceptable (TLI = 0.986, CFI = 0.987, RMSEA = 0.039 and SRMR = 0.057). Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for psychological abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and economic abuse were estimated 0.90, 0.93, 0.79, and 0.78 respectively, and an alpha of 0.95 was found for the total questionnaire. The intra-cluster correlation index was 0.98. CONCLUSIONS: Findings showed that the Persian version of the questionnaire of violence against women made it possible to evaluate various dimensions of violence using 4 factors and showed good construct validity and internal reliability in the female population in Iran; therefore, it can be used in future studies. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-022-12831-8.
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spelling pubmed-89004102022-03-17 Psychometric properties of Haj-Yahia’s questionnaire of violence against women in a sample of married women in Tehran, Iran Sotoodeh Ghorbani, Sahar Ghaffari, Mohtasham Hashemi Nazari, Seyed Saeed BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Abuse against women causes great suffering for the victims and is an important health problem among women. To date, a few screening instruments for wife abuse exist for married women in Iran, but they only assess some of the wife abuse components. The aim of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties and factor structure of the Haj-Yahia’s Questionnaire in a sample of married women residing in Tehran. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study with a population consisting of married women in Tehran, among which 471 individuals were selected using convenience sampling method. Psychometric properties of the questionnaire were evaluated using face validity, content validity, construct validity, internal consistency, and stability. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed using the weighted least square mean and variance adjusted. We performed confirmatory factor analysis using Mplus version 8 software and for other calculations, we used STATA V14. RESULTS: The quantitative results of face validity and content validity indicated that all items of the questionnaire were in acceptable range, and were retained in the study. In CFA results, the model fit indices were acceptable (TLI = 0.986, CFI = 0.987, RMSEA = 0.039 and SRMR = 0.057). Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for psychological abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and economic abuse were estimated 0.90, 0.93, 0.79, and 0.78 respectively, and an alpha of 0.95 was found for the total questionnaire. The intra-cluster correlation index was 0.98. CONCLUSIONS: Findings showed that the Persian version of the questionnaire of violence against women made it possible to evaluate various dimensions of violence using 4 factors and showed good construct validity and internal reliability in the female population in Iran; therefore, it can be used in future studies. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-022-12831-8. BioMed Central 2022-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8900410/ /pubmed/35255890 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12831-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis 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.
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Sotoodeh Ghorbani, Sahar
Ghaffari, Mohtasham
Hashemi Nazari, Seyed Saeed
Psychometric properties of Haj-Yahia’s questionnaire of violence against women in a sample of married women in Tehran, Iran
title Psychometric properties of Haj-Yahia’s questionnaire of violence against women in a sample of married women in Tehran, Iran
title_full Psychometric properties of Haj-Yahia’s questionnaire of violence against women in a sample of married women in Tehran, Iran
title_fullStr Psychometric properties of Haj-Yahia’s questionnaire of violence against women in a sample of married women in Tehran, Iran
title_full_unstemmed Psychometric properties of Haj-Yahia’s questionnaire of violence against women in a sample of married women in Tehran, Iran
title_short Psychometric properties of Haj-Yahia’s questionnaire of violence against women in a sample of married women in Tehran, Iran
title_sort psychometric properties of haj-yahia’s questionnaire of violence against women in a sample of married women in tehran, iran
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8900410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35255890
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12831-8
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