title: [Social support scale: test-retest reliability in pregnant women and structures of agreement and disagreement].
abstract: There is a growing interest in research on the association between social support and health outcomes. The objective of this study was to evaluate the reliability and structure of agreement of a social support scale. Test-retest reliability was measured in a group of pregnant women (n = 65) in a public maternity ward. Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and quadractically weighted kappa (kw2) were used as agreement measures. Log-linear statistical models were fitted to describe patterns of agreement. ICC for social support score was 0.90. The kw2 ranged from 0.23 to 0.70. Log-linear models that provided the best fit to the data were diagonal agreement plus linear-by-linear association and quasi-independence models. The scale was considered a reliable instrument to measure social support scale in low-income pregnant women.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Fernandes Figueira, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. katiass@iff.fiocruz.br
authors.forename: Kátia Silveira da
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.forename: Evandro Silva Freire
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Coutinho
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D011247:Pregnancy; D037841:Pregnant People / Q000523:psychology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012944:Social Support; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*