Reliabilitet och validitet hos Acceptance Symptom Assessment Scale

ABSTRACT
Title: Reliability and validity in Acceptance Symptom
Assessment Scale in measuring labour pain
Department: School of Life Sciences, University of Skövde
Course: Thesis in Nursing Care - midwife, 15 ECTS
Author: Söderlund, Tina; Vinterskog, Linda
Supervisor: Bergh, Ingrid; Mårtensson, Lena
Pages: xx
Month and year: January 2011
Keywords: Labour pain, Reliability, Validity, Visual Analogue Scale
(VAS), Acceptance Symptom Assessment Scale (ASAS)
Today's estimation of pain includes many different methods and scales. In institutional
care pain is a central concept, so also in childbirth care, where the pain experience is a
big part of the total childbirth experience. As of today there is no method fit for the
delicate care childbirth really is. Today's method used is a “Visual Analog Scale”
(VAS). The purpose of the study in question is to explore the reliability and validity of
the “Acceptance Symptom Assessment Scale” (ASAS) when estimating pain in relation
to childbirth. This cross section study was carried out at a medium sized hospital in the
“Västra götalands region” and uses a quantitative approach. Data was collected through
forms answered by women during labour where they estimated their experienced pain
on both scales. Collected data was recorded and analyzed in SPSS and compared to
previous validated instrument (VAS). The result shows high reliability and validity for
the ASAS scale. Two out of three women preferred to estimate their experienced pain
using the ASAS rather than VAS. Witch means that the ASAS scale is as good as VAS
scale in measuring labour pain.
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