Sinicization and validity test of Barriers to Physical Activity during Pregnancy Scale
PANG Xin
WANG Hongxia
LU Tingting
Abstract：Objective:To develop and validate the Chinese version of the Barriers to Physical Activity during Pregnancy Scale(BPAPS)and to examine its reliability and validity among Chinese pregnant women.Method:Translate and back-translate the BPAPS using the Brislin translation model,culture-adjust and revise the Chinese version of BPAPS through expert consultation,and select 406 pregnant women who visited the obstetrics and gynecology outpatient clinic of a tertiary grade A hospital in Jinzhou city as the research subjects to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of BPAPS.Results:The Chinese version of BPAPS included 4 dimensions,namely,pregnancy-related interpersonal disorder,environmental disorder,non-pregnancy-related interpersonal disorder and interpersonal relationship disorder,with 29 items,and the cumulative variance contribution rate is 63.975% .The Cronbach's α coefficient of the total scale was 0.935,and the Cronbach's α coefficient of each dimension were 0.881-0.925.The retest reliability of the total scale was 0.913.Conclusion:The Chinese version of BPAPS has good reliability and validity,and can be used as an evaluation tool for barriers to physical activity during pregnancy among Chinese women.
Keywords：pregnant womenphysical activityevaluation toolsreliabilityvalidityDelphi method
Publication Date：2025-01-09
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 86-90 )