Abstract

MARTINEZ-MENDEZ, Crisanto; VEYTIA-LOPEZ, Marcela; MARQUEZ-MENDOZA, Octavio  and  FEITO-GRANDE, Lydia. Translation and validation of the "Attitude to Abortion Scale" by Rose Mary J. Crock. Dilemas contemp. educ. política valores [online]. 2020, vol.8, n.spe5, 00010.  Epub Jan 28, 2021. ISSN 2007-7890.  https://doi.org/10.46377/dilemas.v8i.2485.

The objective of this study was to translate and validate the Abortion Attitude Scale (AAS), an instrument with vignettes that analyzes the attitude of young people towards the decision-making of the voluntary interruption of pregnancy (VIP). The judging method with 19 judges was used for validation. The instrument was applied in a sample of 150 university students of health sciences. The results indicated the equivalence of the translation both by the judges and by the back translation, demonstrating an adequate internal consistency α = 0.91. The EFA identified two factors that represented 50.82% of the total variance, confirmed by a SEM model. It is concluded that the translation of AAS proved to adequately identify the factors involved in the VIP.

Keywords : Abortion; translation; validation; vignettes.

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