Abstract：
BACKGROUND:Social support facilitates a woman's transition to motherhood. This major developmental transition can be stressful as it includes adaptation of self as well as learning new infant care practice skills. Although a number of instruments have been developed to measure social support, none have been developed or underpinned by theory in the context of perinatal infant care practices. AIM:To develop a reliable and valid instrument to measure social support for new mothers in the perinatal period. METHODS:Phase 1 involved the development of instrument structure and content. Constructs to be measured were defined through an analysis of relevant theoretical and empirical literature. Phase 2 established the psychometric properties of the functional domain of the PICSS. Exploratory factor analyses and principal Component Analyses were undertaken with a sample of first-time mothers (n = 371) from postnatal wards of a large maternity hospital. Item reduction and Cronbach's alpha reliability tests were performed. The structural social support domain was not amenable to psychometric testing. RESULTS:Exploratory Factor Analyses and Principal Component Analyses of the functional domain resulted in a logically coherent 19-item, two-factor solution. The first factor 'Supporting Presence' has nine items (Cronbach's alpha = 0.90) and the second factor 'Practical Support' has ten items (Cronbach's alpha = 0.86). CONCLUSIONS:The PICSS is a coherent and valid measure of social support for new mothers in the postnatal period in the context of infant care practices.
journal_name
J Psychosom Resjournal_title
Journal of psychosomatic researchauthors
Leahy-Warren P,Mulcahy H,Lehane Edoi
10.1016/j.jpsychores.2019.109813subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-11-01 00:00:00pages
109813eissn
0022-3999issn
1879-1360pii
S0022-3999(19)30401-5journal_volume
126pub_type
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