Diane Morof|Jody Steinauer|Sadia Haider|Sonia Liu|Philip D. Darney|Gail Barrett
Evaluation of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy in a United States Population of Women
San Francisco General Hospital|University of California, San Francisco|San Francisco General Hospital|University of California, San Francisco|Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center|University of California, Davis|San Francisco General Hospital|University of California, San Francisco|Brunel University London
evaluate reliability validity london measure unplanned pregnancy ukdeveloped measure pregnancy intention english spanish translation us population womena psychometric evaluation study london measure unplanned pregnancy lmup sixitem selfcompletion paper measure conducted 346 women aged 1545 presented san francisco general hospital termination pregnancy antenatal care analyses two language versions carried separately reliability internal consistency assessed using cronbachs alpha itemtotal correlations testretest reliability stability assessed using weighted kappa construct validity assessed using principal components analysis hypothesis testingpsychometric testing demonstrated lmup reliable valid us english alpha 078 itemtotal correlations 020 weighted kappa 072 unidimensionality confirmed hypotheses met spanish translation alpha 084 itemtotal correlations 020 weighted kappa 077 unidimensionality confirmed hypotheses metthe lmup reliable valid us english spanish translation therefore may used us women