@article{ref1,
title="Validation of a scale to measure ill-treatment of women",
journal="Atencion Primaria",
year="2006",
author="Luna del Castillo, Juan de Dios and Castellano, María and Aguar, Marta and Delgado, Ana R.",
volume="38",
number="2",
pages="82-89",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To analyse the validity of content and of structure and the reliability of a questionnaire designed to measure ill-treatment (IT) of women by their partners. DESIGN: Descriptive, transversal, multi-centre study. SETTING: Four urban health centres in Granada, Spain. PARTICIPANTS: Three hundred and ninety one women of 14 and over who consulted in primary care and had a stable partner for at least 3 months. MAIN MEASUREMENTS: Questionnaire by means of interviews between December 2000 and May 2001, with 10 Likert-like questions on physical, psychological, and sexual mistreatment, social and demographic questions and various health indicators. We analysed content validity by means of exploratory factorial analysis, reliability of alpha-Cronbach factors and of corrected scale-item correlation coefficients, and structure validity. RESULTS: We obtained 2 empirical IT factors that did not correspond to the theoretical dimensions of physical, psychological, and sexual mistreatment and explained 64.21% of variance. The first included all the questions on psychological abuse, one on physical abuse and the sexual abuse dimension. The second covered the remaining questions on physical IT and &quot;breaking things in the home&quot;. The factors gave reliability coefficients of 0.8688 and 0.7072. Comparison by means of extreme groups technique showed that the questionnaire's structure is valid. CONCLUSION: We found this was a reliable and valid questionnaire for evaluating ill-treatment of women. Its use, particularly in primary care, could help expand and deepen understanding of the problem.<p /><p>Language: es</p>",
language="es",
issn="0212-6567",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}