Validation of a scale on society's attitudes towards the sexuality of women with intellectual disabilities — Survey Study
Background: The main aim of this study was to design and validate a questionnaire in Spanish to acknowledge the perception of the sexuality of women with intellectual disabilities. We sought to cover specific spheres of sexuality, such as sexual capacity, decision-making capacity, sexual disinhibiti...
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| author | Rojas-Chaves, Mónica Lucas-Matheu, Manuel Castro De Luna, Gracia María Parrón Carreño, Tesifón Nievas Soriano, Bruno José |
| author_facet | Rojas-Chaves, Mónica Lucas-Matheu, Manuel Castro De Luna, Gracia María Parrón Carreño, Tesifón Nievas Soriano, Bruno José |
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| description | Background: The main aim of this study was to design and validate a questionnaire in Spanish to acknowledge the perception of the sexuality of women with intellectual disabilities. We sought to cover specific spheres of sexuality, such as sexual capacity, decision-making capacity, sexual disinhibition, and sexual education and quality of life. Methods: A questionnaire was developed based on a literature review. Validation was performed using content validation through a panel of experts; construct validation was performed using exploratory and confirmatory factorial analyses; reliability tests were also performed, using Cronbach’s Alpha and the two-halves test. Results: Two-hundred forty-four participants pilot tested the initial 34-item questionnaire. After content validation and exploratory factorial analysis, the resulting 10-item questionnaire showed four domains, with Cronbach’s Alpha values between 0.69 and 0.82. Confirmatory factorial analysis confirmed the domains, and the model’s goodness-of-fit tests were adequate. Conclusions. The final ten-item scale developed in this research proved to be a valid and reliable instrument, as it has good psychometric properties of both validity and reliability. Thus, researchers interested in investigating the social perception of the sexuality of women with intellectual disabilities can use this tool. Future research can extend the validity of this scale to other languages and settings. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-140382023-04-12T19:20:18Z Validation of a scale on society's attitudes towards the sexuality of women with intellectual disabilities — Survey Study Rojas-Chaves, Mónica Lucas-Matheu, Manuel Castro De Luna, Gracia María Parrón Carreño, Tesifón Nievas Soriano, Bruno José sexuality intellectual disability questionnaire scale validation Background: The main aim of this study was to design and validate a questionnaire in Spanish to acknowledge the perception of the sexuality of women with intellectual disabilities. We sought to cover specific spheres of sexuality, such as sexual capacity, decision-making capacity, sexual disinhibition, and sexual education and quality of life. Methods: A questionnaire was developed based on a literature review. Validation was performed using content validation through a panel of experts; construct validation was performed using exploratory and confirmatory factorial analyses; reliability tests were also performed, using Cronbach’s Alpha and the two-halves test. Results: Two-hundred forty-four participants pilot tested the initial 34-item questionnaire. After content validation and exploratory factorial analysis, the resulting 10-item questionnaire showed four domains, with Cronbach’s Alpha values between 0.69 and 0.82. Confirmatory factorial analysis confirmed the domains, and the model’s goodness-of-fit tests were adequate. Conclusions. The final ten-item scale developed in this research proved to be a valid and reliable instrument, as it has good psychometric properties of both validity and reliability. Thus, researchers interested in investigating the social perception of the sexuality of women with intellectual disabilities can use this tool. Future research can extend the validity of this scale to other languages and settings. 2022-10-25T07:25:00Z 2022-10-25T07:25:00Z 2022-10-14 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 1660-4601 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/14038 10.3390/ijerph192013228 en https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/20/13228 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI |
| spellingShingle | sexuality intellectual disability questionnaire scale validation Rojas-Chaves, Mónica Lucas-Matheu, Manuel Castro De Luna, Gracia María Parrón Carreño, Tesifón Nievas Soriano, Bruno José Validation of a scale on society's attitudes towards the sexuality of women with intellectual disabilities — Survey Study |
| title | Validation of a scale on society's attitudes towards the sexuality of women with intellectual disabilities — Survey Study |
| title_full | Validation of a scale on society's attitudes towards the sexuality of women with intellectual disabilities — Survey Study |
| title_fullStr | Validation of a scale on society's attitudes towards the sexuality of women with intellectual disabilities — Survey Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Validation of a scale on society's attitudes towards the sexuality of women with intellectual disabilities — Survey Study |
| title_short | Validation of a scale on society's attitudes towards the sexuality of women with intellectual disabilities — Survey Study |
| title_sort | validation of a scale on society's attitudes towards the sexuality of women with intellectual disabilities — survey study |
| topic | sexuality intellectual disability questionnaire scale validation |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/14038 |
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