Psychometric and clinical assessment of the Persian-SCREENIVF among infertile couples

Masumeh Ghazanfarpour; Tayebeh Mokhtari Sorkhani; Laleh Tajadiny; Fereshteh Zeynivandnezhad; Atefeh Ahmadi; Victoria Habibzadeh; Katayoun Alidousti

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e22950

Psychometric and clinical assessment of the Persian-SCREENIVF among infertile couples

Heliyon. 2023 Nov 28;9(12):e22950. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e22950. eCollection 2023 Dec.

Authors

Masumeh Ghazanfarpour¹, Tayebeh Mokhtari Sorkhani², Laleh Tajadiny³, Fereshteh Zeynivandnezhad⁴, Atefeh Ahmadi⁵, Victoria Habibzadeh⁶, Katayoun Alidousti¹

Affiliations

¹ Reproductive health, family and population research center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran.
² Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Shahid Sadoghi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
³ Student Research Committee, Razi Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
⁴ Organization for Educational Research and Planning, Institute of Curriculum Planning and Educational Innovation, Tehran, Iran.
⁵ Neuroscience Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
⁶ Afzalipour Clinical Center for Infertility, Afzalipour Hospital, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.

Abstract

There is a significant rate of infertility and subsequent psychological problems among couples worldwide. Screening and treatment of the emotional burden of infertility and related Assistant Reproductive Therapies help to improve the quality of life of infertile people. Specific instruments which measure infertility-related status are more accurate. This study aimed to validate the SCREENIVF questionnaire to be used for the psychological screening and care of couples who seek infertility treatment. This quantitative psychometric study was run in infertility private and governmental clinics in XXX on 344 infertile women and men. They filled Persian-SCREENIVF. The Rasch-Andrich rating scale model was applied to investigate the psychometric quality of the survey. Additionally, structural equation modelling was run for model fit and construct validity as well. Moreover, multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was applied to examine the effects of demographic variables on the extracted constructs of the instrument in the population of the study. The results revealed five constructs in the questions with the corresponding items. Overall, the demographic variables have no contribution to these five constructs. Persian-SCREENIVF can be used for further studies about emotional disturbances in infertility problems.

Keywords: ART; Persian; Psychometric assessment; Rasch; SCREENIVF; SEM; infertility.