Validation of instruments to measure social factors intervening in the lack of renatal control of pregnant teens

Abstract

Introduction: Pregnant adolescents belong to a vulnerable group of the society, due to the emotional and biological immaturity they represent. lack of Attendance at prenatal appointments increases the risk, both for the mother and for him baby, causing complications in childbirth and postpartum evolution Objective: Validate the quantitative and qualitative instruments that will allow us to identify The social factors that intervene in the lack of prenatal control of pregnant women teenagers. Materials and Methods: Study of non-experimental or observational design, qualitative-quantitative, descriptive, prospective cross-sectional approach. In both instruments, expert judgment was applied as a validation criterion. For this, it was carried out a questionnaire that was applied through the survey technique to 30 pregnant women. Results: The qualitative instrument yielded an average of total reliability of its three categories of 89.87 which places it in the category of very reliable and in the instrument quantitatively, a reliability average of 90.84 was obtained, which indicates that falls into the very reliable category. Conclusion: The Instruments are reliable and valid to measure the independent variable and its correlation with the dependent variable, evidencing compliance with the general hypothesis of this research.