Anales de psicología Vol. 40, Nº 3 (2024)

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    Psychometric characteristics of core FertiQoL questionnaire in a Spanish sample of infertile women
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2024) Bueno-Sánchez, Lidia; Alhambra-Borrás, Tamara; Bonilla-Campos, Amparo Bonilla-Campos; Durá-Ferrandis, Estrella
    Background: Fertility diagnosis and treatment have an impact on the quality of life (QoL) of individuals. FertiQoL is an internationally de-veloped questionnaire to measure fertility-specific QoL. Obtaining reliable information on the impact of fertility issues enables social and health care systems to develop value-centered integrated care.Objective: The aim of the present study is to examine the dimensionality, validity and reliability of Core FertiQol in a sample of Spanish women undergoing fertility treat-ment. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted, administering the Core FertiQoL questionnaire to 564 women with fertility problems. De-scriptive analyses were performed on sociodemographic and clinical data of the sample. The psychometric properties of the FertiQoL were tested by performing confirmatory factor analyses, calculating the average values of the variance extracted, validity, reliability and correlation coefficients be-tween scales. Results: Four factors (Emotional, Mind/Body, Relational and Social) were obtained. All statistics presented adequate values (RMSEA and SRMR lower than 0.09 and CFI and TLI higher than 0.9). Reliability was demonstrated with the CRindex of each factor higher than 0.7 and the AVE higher than 0.5. Conclusions: Core FertiQol presents an acceptable ad-justment for Spanish women with fertility problems. It offers a communi-cation channel between professionals and patients, as well as accurate in-formation in its subscales on areas that may reflect QoL impairment. Core FertiQol is an instrument that allows the identification of areas requiring support, providing valuable information for the design of efficient social-health value-centered programs for people with infertility.