Participant flow chart.

<p>Participant flow chart.</p

Distribution of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy (LMUP) score for ever-married Saudi women.

<p><b>LMUP score.</b> 0 unplanned pregnancy, 12 planned pregnancy.</p

Pathways* for the impact of unplanned pregnancy on maternal and newborn outcomes *[9] → established correlations from previous literature by previous survey tools.

<p>---The need for validation of the pregnancy planning measure to establish the relationships.</p

Validation of a pregnancy planning measure for Arabic-speaking women

<div><p>Background</p><p>The prevalence of unplanned pregnancy in Saudi Arabia has not been thoroughly investigated.</p><p>Objective</p><p>To conduct a psychometric evaluation study of the Arabic version of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy (LMUP).</p><p>Methods</p><p>To evaluate the psychometric properties of the LMUP, we conducted a self-administered online survey among 796 ever-married Saudi women aged 20–49 years, and a re-test survey among 24 women. The psychometric properties evaluated included content validity measured by content validity index (CVI), structural validity assessed by exploratory factor analysis (EFA), substantive validity assessed by hypothesis testing, contextual stability for the test-retest assessed by weighted Kappa, and internal consistency assessed by Cronbach’s alpha.</p><p>Results</p><p>The psychometric analysis of the Arabic version of LMUP exhibited valid and reliable properties. The CVIs for individual items and at the scale level were >0.7. EFA confirmed a unidimensional extraction of the scale item. Hypothesis testing confirmed expected associations. The tool was stable with weighted kappa = 0.78 and Cronbach’s alpha = 0.88.</p><p>Conclusion and recommendations</p><p>In this study, the validity and reliability of the Arabic version of the LMUP were confirmed according to well-known psychometric criteria. This LMUP version can be used in research studies among Arabic-speaking women to measure unplanned pregnancy and investigate correlates and outcomes related to unplanned pregnancy.</p></div

Expert rating of the six items in the Arabic version of London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy (LMUP).

<p>Expert rating of the six items in the Arabic version of London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy (LMUP).</p

Difference in the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy (LMUP) score by characteristics of the study sample of Saudi women.

<p>Difference in the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy (LMUP) score by characteristics of the study sample of Saudi women.</p

Distribution of London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy (LMUP) score of Saudi women parity.

<p>0 parity consisted of women who are had no prior born child, and/or currently pregnant with the first one.</p

Reliability testing and exploratory factor analysis.

<p>Reliability testing and exploratory factor analysis.</p

Item endorsement for London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy (LMUP) items.

<p>Item endorsement for London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy (LMUP) items.</p

The development and deployment of Common Data Elements for tissue banks for translational research in cancer – An emerging standard based approach for the Mesothelioma Virtual Tissue Bank-3

Ssociation of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology.<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "The development and deployment of Common Data Elements for tissue banks for translational research in cancer – An emerging standard based approach for the Mesothelioma Virtual Tissue Bank"</p><p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/8/91</p><p>BMC Cancer 2008;8():91-91.</p><p>Published online 8 Apr 2008</p><p>PMCID:PMC2329649.</p><p></p