Instruments validation to measure sociodemographic and clinical factors that influence in maternal death

Abstract

Introduction: worldwide, indicators show that maternal death rates are higher in poor countries. Ecuador is represented by 23.9% of this vulnerable population where sociodemographic and clinical factors affect the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. Therefore, the validation of documentary measurement instruments that contribute to improving maternal health is necessary. Objective: To validate the IMAO-1-2020, IMAO2-2020 instruments that will allow us to identify the sociodemographic and clinical factors that affect maternal death. Methodology: It is a type of field research, cross-sectional, exploratory, evaluative, with a non-experimental design. In both instruments, expert judgment was applied as a validation criterion. For this, a questionnaire was carried out that was applied through the survey technique to 15 pregnant women and, in addition, an interview was prepared that was applied to 2 pregnant women. Results: In the expert qualification, a reliability score of 91.66% was obtained for the first instrument, to which, in addition, the ? of Cronbach obtaining a reliability of 0.89 equivalent to good, through the SPSS 22.0 software. The qualification of the second instrument obtained a reliability score of 95.46% by the experts. Conclusion: It is concluded that the instruments are suitable for assessing the sociodemographic and clinical factors that affect maternal death.