title: [Development of a self-administered questionnaire to assess women's satisfaction with maternity care].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We describe the development and the validation of a French self-administered questionnaire which measures women satisfaction concerning care given during pregnancy. The analysis includes pregnancy monitoring, hospitalization for delivery and homecoming.
  
  
  METHODS
  We considered the content validity, internal-consistency and the reproducibility by test-retest estimates. This survey also compared the characteristics of respondents and non-respondents.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Response rate was 61% and the rate of reply per question was greater than 90%. Eleven dimensions are identified by principal-components analysis. Ten of them had good Cronbach's alpha coefficients (0.58 to 0.83). The convergence between open comments and questions and between the different methods to measure satisfaction was good. The test-retest estimates for each dimension were correct.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This questionnaire is reliable. It is a valid tool for evaluation of satisfaction after pregnancy. Designed to be sent to the woman's residence 2 months after childbirth, it can be easily used in common practice.
authors.affiliation: Unité Fonctionnelle d'Evaluation Médicale, Service d'Epidémiologie, Economie de la Santé et Prévention.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gerbaud
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mascart
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Belgacem
authors.forename: M-L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Lejeune
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lacombe
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Prunayre
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mille
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lemery
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Buisson
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Colomb
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Farge
authors.forename: M-C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Fortuné
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Foulhy
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Grimaud
authors.forename: A-M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Guittard-Loubier
authors.forename: M-A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Lavignon
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vincent
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008427:Maternal Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D010298:Parity; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011247:Pregnancy; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
vernacular_title: Développement d'un auto-questionnaire évaluant la satisfaction des femmes à l'égard des maternités.