• J Gen Intern Med · May 2024

    Development of the Ready to Care Survey for VA Women's Health Primary Care Provider.

    • Amy H Farkas, Jennifer Kibicho, Florine Ndakuya-Fitzgerald, and Qiyan Mu.
    • Division of General Internal Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA. ahfarkas@mcw.edu.
    • J Gen Intern Med. 2024 May 1; 39 (6): 101010141010-1014.

    IntroductionWomen Veterans are at increased risk for poor pregnancy outcomes and are increasingly using Veteran Affairs (VA) for maternity benefits. VA Women's Health Primary Care Providers (WH-PCPs) are well positioned to improve maternal outcomes for women Veterans, yet little is understood about their experience and comfort with perinatal care. The objective of this study was to develop and validate a survey that could be utilized to assess WH-PCPs' experience, comfort, and attitudes towards perinatal care.MethodsAfter a review of the literature, we adapted a previously published survey to address four content areas including clinical experience, comfort level, and attitudes towards perinatal care and knowledge of VA specific maternity services. This survey was piloted with five WH-PCPs before undergoing two rounds of content validation with content experts. Content validity indexes (CVI) were calculated based on the content experts' ratings. Qualitative feedback from the content experts were summarized and reviewed by the research team. The CVI and qualitative responses were utilized to guide the decision to revise, refine, or delete survey questions.ResultsAfter the first round of content validation, we deleted three questions, revised three questions, and add three questions to the content areas of clinical experience and comfort. In the domain of attitudes towards perinatal care, we deleted one question and revised two questions and three questions were added to the knowledge of VA specific maternity services domain. After the second round of content validation, only one question was deleted from the attitudes domain.DiscussionWe developed and validated the Ready to Care Survey for VA WH-PCP using two rounds of content validation. The final survey had face and content validity. This survey tool can be used to assess VA WH-PCP's knowledge and readiness in caring for Veterans of child-bearing age for operational and research needs.© 2023. This is a U.S. Government work and not under copyright protection in the US; foreign copyright protection may apply.

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