Adaptation of the mothers’ breastfeeding empowerment scale to Turkish society

AIM: 'It was aimed to establish the validity and reliability of the "Mothers' Breastfeeding Empowerment Scale"'. METHOD: Content validity was evaluated with the content validity index (CVI) agreed upon by experts. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were used for construct validity. Before factor analysis, the sample size was decided using KMO and Bartlett's Sphericity test. For the reliability study of the scale, Cronbach's Alpha coefficient and total score correlation coefficients of parallel forms were examined. RESULTS: While 49.9% of the infants were between 4-6 months old, the average age of the infants was determined as 3.64 ± 1.77. 70.6% of the mothers were between the ages of 26-43 and the average age of the mothers was 28.83 ± 5.38. In the factor analysis it was found that item loadings of the scale was between 0.57 and 0.95. Also, the fit values of the scale were within acceptable limits. Additionally, it was determined that there was a high-level positive relationship between the scale used for the parallel form and our scale. CONCLUSION: The use of the scale in Turkish society is valid and reliable. Validity and reliability analyses support this.