Mohammad Zakaria Pezeshki
1,2, Atefeh Shadman
3*, Mahasti Alizadeh
1,2, Sevil Hakimi
4, Fariba Heidari
11 1Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
2 2Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
3 3Boo Ali children’s Hospital, Clinical Research Development Center, Ardebil University of Medical Sciences, Ardebil, Iran
4 4Department of Midwifery and Reproductive Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
Abstract
This study was done to
evaluate the validity and reliability of women’s reproductive history
questionnaire which will be used in Azar Cohort study; a cohort that is
conducted by Tabriz University of Medical Science in Shabestar county for
identifying risk factors of no communicable diseases. Content and face validity
were evaluated by ten experts in the field and quantified as content validity
index (CVI) and content validity ratio (CVR). To assess the reliability, using
test-retest approach, kappa statistic was calculated for categorical variables
and intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) was used for the quantitative
items. The calculated CVI and CVR were 0.91and 0.94, respectively. Reliability
for all items was high. The ICC was 0.99 and kappa statistic was equal to 1. The
final version of questionnaire was redesigned in 26 items with 7 subscales.