Translation and validation of the "Attitude to Abortion Scale" by Rose Mary J. Crock.

Abstract

The objective of this study was to translate and validate the Abortion Attitude Scale (AAS), an instrument with vignettes that analyzes the attitude of young people towards the decision-making of the voluntary interruption of pregnancy (VIP). The judging method with 19 judges was used for validation. The instrument was applied in a sample of 150 university students of health sciences. The results indicated the equivalence of the translation both by the judges and by the back translation, demonstrating an adequate internal consistency α = 0.91. The EFA identified two factors that represented 50.82% of the total variance, confirmed by a SEM model. It is concluded that the translation of AAS proved to adequately identify the factors involved in the VIP.