Expressional Attitude Toward Family Planning
Expressional Attitude Toward Family Planning
Expressional Attitude Toward Family Planning is a 10-item measure of women's emotional responses to the idea of using family planning (FP) methods. Items cover emotional and physical aspects of FP use.
High Psychometric Score
ITEMS:
1. How pleasant you will be if you use family planning?
2. Does limiting the number of children have anything worthy for you?
3. How pleasant if you use family planning for limiting the number of children?
4. How comfortable is it, if you use family planning?
5. Does the comfort of family planning methods matter for you?
6. How do you feel if you use family planning?
7. How would you feel if family planning methods administered through injection?
8. Does the pain following the use of injectable methods bother you?
9. How important the pleasure you would get if you use family planning?
10. How you are concerned with psychological factors following family planning use?
Response Options:
3-point Likert scale
Unlikely/unworthy - 1
Likely/worthy - 3
PSYCHOMETRIC SCORE
GEOGRAPHIES TESTED:
POPULATIONS INCLUDED:
Female
AGE RANGE:
Adolescents
Adults
Scoring Procedures:
The scores for all items are added together to create a combined score.
PRIMARY CITATION:
Alemayehu, M., Medhanyie, A. A., Reed, E., & Bezabih, A. M. (2020). Validation of family planning tool in the pastoralist community. Reproductive Health, 17(1), 123. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-020-00976-x
Psychometric Score:
Qualitative Research
Existing Literature/Theoretical Framework
Field Expert Input
Cognitive Interviews / Pilot Testing
Internal
Test-retest
Interrater
Content
Face
Criterion (gold-standard)
Construct
Psychometric Scoring
Total Score: 6.00/8 Points (HIGH)
Citation Frequency
KEY
FULL POINTS
PARTIAL POINTS NOT ASSESSED NOT APPLICABLEFor more details, see Scoring Methodology
