Abstract
BackgroundA major part of midwifery care involves the empowerment of women and their families for the control of factors affecting their health. To this end, midwives should experience their own empowerment first. The present study was conducted to translate and determine the psychometric properties of the Perception of Empowerment in Midwifery Scale among Iranian midwives.MethodsA total of 380 people participated in this cross-sectional study. A demographic questionnaire and the 22-item Perception of Empowerment in Midwifery Scale were sent to the participants online. The validity of the scale and the analysis of its main components were carried out through exploratory factor analysis with Varimax rotation and confirmatory factor analysis. The reliability of the scale was assessed using the internal consistency method with Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, average inter-item correlation (AIC) and McDonald’s omega.ResultsSeventeen scale items were retained after the exploratory factor analysis, and five factors were extracted, including “effective management”, “professional practice”, “authority”, “advocacy”, and “professional informant”, with factor loadings ranging from 0.489 to 0.899. The five latent factors explained 53.07% of the overall variance of the scale. The confirmatory factor analysis showed an acceptable goodness of fit. The internal consistency of the scale was confirmed with a Cronbach’s alpha above 0.7.ConclusionThe Persian version of the Perception of Empowerment in Midwifery Scale with 17 items has adequate reliability for midwives working in Iran. Given its appropriate psychometric properties, this scale is fit to be used among midwives in future studies.
Highlights
A major part of midwifery care involves the empowerment of women and their families for the control of factors affecting their health
An important part of midwifery care is the empowerment of women and their families for controlling the factors affecting their health [3]
The second part consisted of the Perception of Empowerment in Midwifery Scale, developed by Anne Matthews in Ireland, with confirmed validity and reliability [13]
Summary
A major part of midwifery care involves the empowerment of women and their families for the control of factors affecting their health. To this end, midwives should experience their own empowerment first. The factors affecting midwives’ decision to continue providing midwifery services or leave their job include the feeling of being supported by the managers, access to adequate resources, the development of relations with pregnant women and the experience of feeling empowered in and in control of their job [2]. An important part of midwifery care is the empowerment of women and their families for controlling the factors affecting their health [3]. If the empowerment of women is a responsibility of midwives, this group should first experience the empowerment of themselves [4]
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