The Turkish version of Maternal Attachment Inventory

Abstract

Objective: The research has been designed as methodological with purpose of the validity and the reliability of the Turkish language version of Maternal Attachment Inventory on mothers within one and four months postpartum. Method: This study was carried out with mothers registered at 19 Health Clinics and three Maternal-Child Health and Family Planning Clinics in which connected to Bornova Health Presidency in Izmir. The sample of research has been composed three clinics in which determined with the purposive sampling technique. First stage, the research was studied on 165 mothers when their babies were approximately 30-40 days old in these registered clinics.At the second stage of research has been interviewed again with 78 mothers when their babies were approximately 90-105 days old.Results: It is determined that experts consensuses about content of items as a result of analysis (Kendall’s W=0.274, p=0.001<0.01) which made according to points that given by eight experts for content validity of 26 items in inventory after were made studies related to language validity. The Cronbach Alpha coefficient reliability of Maternal Attachment Inventory has been determined as 0.77 at mothers who have one month baby, 0.82 at mothers who have four months baby. It is conclude that internal consistency reliability of inventory is high. Results in accordance with test re-test and two half reliability of scale have supported reliability of scale, too. Conclusion: These findings suggest that Turkish version of Maternal Attachment Inventory is reliable and valid on mothers between one and four months after the birth of their infants.