René A. Ruiz|Susan Gennaro|Caitlin O’Connor|C. Nathan Marti|Amanda J. Lulloff|Tayra Keshinover|Anne Gibeau|Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk
Measuring Coping in Pregnant Minority Women
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center|Texas Tech University|Boston College|Boston College|Boston College|Jacobi Medical Center|Jacobi Medical Center|The Ohio State University
coping strategies may help explain minority women experience stress poorer birth outcomes psychometrically sound instrument assess coping needed examined psychometric properties readability correlates coping pregnant black n 186 hispanic n 220 women using brief cope exploratory confirmatory factor analysis tested psychometric properties fleschkincaid reading level test assessed readability linear regression models tested correlates coping findings suggested two factors questionnaire active disengaged coping well adequate reliability validity readability level disengaged coping cronbachs 78 english 70 spanish active coping 86 english 92 spanish two group confirmatory factor analysis revealed minority groups equivalent factor loadings reading level sixth grade age education gravidity found significant correlates active coping