Validation of a Scale on Society’s Attitudes towards the Sexuality of Women with Intellectual Disabilities—Survey Study

Mónica Rojas-Chaves, Manuel Lucas-Matheu, Gracia Castro-Luna (), Tesifón Parrón-Carreño and Bruno José Nievas-Soriano ()
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Mónica Rojas-Chaves: Nursing, Physiotherapy, and Medicine Department, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain
Manuel Lucas-Matheu: Nursing, Physiotherapy, and Medicine Department, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain
Gracia Castro-Luna: Nursing, Physiotherapy, and Medicine Department, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain
Tesifón Parrón-Carreño: Nursing, Physiotherapy, and Medicine Department, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain
Bruno José Nievas-Soriano: Nursing, Physiotherapy, and Medicine Department, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 20, 1-10

Abstract: Background: The main aim of this study was to design and validate a questionnaire in Spanish to acknowledge the perception of the sexuality of women with intellectual disabilities. We sought to cover specific spheres of sexuality, such as sexual capacity, decision-making capacity, sexual disinhibition, and sexual education and quality of life. Methods: A questionnaire was developed based on a literature review. Validation was performed using content validation through a panel of experts; construct validation was performed using exploratory and confirmatory factorial analyses; reliability tests were also performed, using Cronbach’s Alpha and the two-halves test. Results: Two-hundred forty-four participants pilot tested the initial 34-item questionnaire. After content validation and exploratory factorial analysis, the resulting 10-item questionnaire showed four domains, with Cronbach’s Alpha values between 0.69 and 0.82. Confirmatory factorial analysis confirmed the domains, and the model’s goodness-of-fit tests were adequate. Conclusions. The final ten-item scale developed in this research proved to be a valid and reliable instrument, as it has good psychometric properties of both validity and reliability. Thus, researchers interested in investigating the social perception of the sexuality of women with intellectual disabilities can use this tool. Future research can extend the validity of this scale to other languages and settings.

Keywords: sexuality; intellectual disability; questionnaire; scale; validation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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