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Gaining Comprehensive Data About Sexual Knowledge Through Surveys Publisher



Karimian Z1 ; Khoei EM2 ; Maasoumi R3 ; Araban M4 ; Rasolzade M5 ; Aghayan S6 ; Azin SA7
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  1. 1. Department of Reproductive Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran
  2. 2. The Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies (INCAS), Institution for Risk Behavior Reduction, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  3. 3. Department of Reproductive Health, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  4. 4. Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Public Health Department, Faculty of Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
  5. 5. Trauma Research Center, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran
  6. 6. School of Medicine, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran
  7. 7. Reproductive Biotechnology Research Center, Avicenna Research Institute (ACECR), Tehran, Iran

Source: International Journal of Reproductive BioMedicine Published:2017


Abstract

Background: Delivery of sexual health services rely on rigorous facts extracted from surveys, but often those facts cannot be available due to the lack of culturallysensitive questionnaires. Objective: our aim was to show the validity and reliability of the Persian version of the Acquisition of Sexual Information Test (ASIT), a measure selected due to its assemblages with Iranian culture. Materials and Methods: Forward-backward procedure was applied to translate the questionnaire. Cross-sectional study was carried out and psychometric properties of the Iranian version were tested in a thirty sample of reproductive-age women. Face validity was assessed by qualitative and quantitative methods. Content validity was also assessed by calculating two quantitative indicators as content validity index (CVI) and content validity ratio (CVR). Reliability was assessed by test-retest analyses. Results: Impact score was 1.5, the majority of participants (83.3%) stated that the overall level of questionnaire was high but some of the questions were irrelevant to sexual knowledge. Many questions (90%) gained a CVR less than 0.56, and all of them gained CVIs lower than 0.7. Correlation in test-retest reliability was 0.85. Conclusion: sexual knowledge questionnaire seems to be culturally inappropriate for Iranian women. Although, we need survey data for assessing the evidence-based needs for sexual health and best practice, but the questions addressing various dimensions of sexuality must be culturally sensitive, comprehensive and appropriate. Our findings suggest that ASIT as a well-known measure should be used in Iranian population with caution. © 2017, Research and Clinical Center for Infertitlity. All rights reserved.