A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Adaption of pregnancy anxiety questionnaire–revised for all pregnant women regardless of parity: PRAQ-R2




AuthorsHuizink Anja C, Delforterie Monique J, Scheinin Noora, Tolvanen Mimmi, Karlsson Linnea, Karlsson Hasse

PublisherSpringer

Publication year2016

JournalArchives of Women's Mental Health

Volume19

Issue1

First page 125

Last page132

Number of pages8

ISSN1434-1816

eISSN1435-1102

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s00737-015-0531-2


Abstract

The 10-item Pregnancy-Related Anxiety Questionnaire–Revised (PRAQ-R) is a widely used instrument to assess and identify pregnancy-specific anxiety in nulliparous women. It has good psychometric values and predictive validity for birth and childhood outcomes. Nonetheless, the PRAQ-R is not designed for use in parous women, as particularly one item of the questionnaire is not relevant for women who gave birth before. We tested the factorial and scalar invariance of a modified PRAQ-R2 across nulliparous and parous women with an adapted item to fit both groups of pregnant women. A longitudinal study among 1144 pregnant women (n = 608 nulliparous and n  = 536 parous) with two repeated measures of the PRAQ-R2 was used to test for measurement invariance of the instrument. Results show metric and scalar invariance, indicating that the PRAQ-R2 measures similar constructs on the same scale for all pregnant women at two different times during pregnancy. We conclude that the PRAQ-R2 can be used, compared, or combined in a sample of nulliparous and parous women.



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