S Roshanaei|Abdolreza Shaghaghi|Mohhamad Asghary Jafarabadi|Ahmad Kazemi
Measuring unintended pregnancies in postpartum Iranian women: validation of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy
Health Promotion Services|Health Promotion Services|Tabriz University of Medical Sciences|Health Promotion Services
research suggests relatively sizable rate unintended pregnancies subgroups iranian women concise standard scale measure pregnancy intention iranian womentherefore psychometric properties persian version london measure unplanned pregnancy lmup investigatedthe persian version lmup tested randomly selected married women aged 1549 years city ajabshir east azerbaijan province northwest islamic republic iranthe scales face validity internal consistency examined construct validity tested exploratory factor analysisthe internal consistency scale acceptable cronbach alpha coefficient 087structural indicators kaisermeyerolkin measure 085 bartlett test sphericity p 0001 verified interpretability exploratory factor analysis outputapplicability persian version lmup acceptedfurther investigation needed understand cultural norms might influence iranian womens responses queries pregnancy intentions