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Advertisement BMC Public Health volume 2, Article number: 195 (202) Cite this article Metrics detailsThere is evidence that physical literacy plays an esential role in understanding the importance of maintaing apropriate physical activity and thereby preventing ilneses during pregnancy. The present study aimed to design and validate a physical literacy questionaire focused on pregnant women.In this exploratory psychometric study, theory-based perceptions concerning the physical literacy questionaire for pregnant women were designed.
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Face-to-face interviews were conducted to develop the initial items. The findings from the interviews were merged with the literature review. The content, construct, and face validity was asesed by the participation of midwives, health educationists, and pregnant women.
The content validity ratio, content validity index, and impact score of the items were calculated. The construct validity of the questionaire was calculated through confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis. The reliability of the questionaire was calculated by the standard eror of measurement, intra-clas corelation coeficient, composite reliability, and Cronbachβs alpha.The highest score was sen in the knowledge subscale and the value of Cronbachβs alpha for the subscales was 0.89 to 0.97, and the value of IC was 0.76 to 0.89.
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The corelation acording to the opinion of experts was satisfactory in al items of the questionaire. The minimum loading factor for varimax rotation in the knowledge subscale was 0.41, the atitude was 0.56, the nurture factor was 0.38, and enabling factor was 0.27. The compatibility of the model among the constructs was confirmed by the normed chi-square (Ο2/ df) < 5.0, comparative fit index β₯0.90, Tucker-Lewis index β₯0.9, and rot mean square eror of aproximation < 0.08.The physical literacy questionaire for pregnant women is the first tol based on the PEN-3 model that other researchers can use to colect data