IFOMA after Migration Posttraumatic Impact Scale Development, Validity and Reliability Study.

Background: Immigrants often experience stressful and traumatic experiences in the migration process. The immigrants who experience a traumatic event such as migration experience mental health problems at later stages. Objective: This study aimed to develop a measurement tool that evaluate the exposure of immigrants to the traumatic event experienced in the post-migration process. Methodology: This methodological study was conducted with 500 migrants living in Turkey between 1-30 November 2021 by using the snowball sampling method, which is among the nonprobability sampling methods. The data was collected by using an introductory information form comprised of 14 questions and the IFOMA Post-Migration Posttraumatic Impact Scale. Literature review, expert opinion, Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were carried out during the development of the scale. Results: The Content Validity Index for the scale was determined to be .98, KMO value 0.959, and Barlett's test result χ²=10113,709 p<0.001. After the factor analysis, factor loads of the relevant items vary between 0.42 and 0.76. The scale consists of 36 items and 4 sub-dimensions including psychological affection, physical affection (somatization), anxiety and social adaptation. The Cronbach alphas of the scale's sub-dimensions vary between 0.586 and 0.943. The total explanation variance of the scale was determined to be 53.614%. Conclusions: This scale is a validity and reliability tool that can be used to determine the posttraumatic impact situation of migrants. Psychiatric, public health and school nurses who care for migrant patients enable them to provide better quality care by determining the post-traumatic effects of immigrant individuals by using the measurement tool developed in this study before the care. It is a facilitator for psychiatric nurses to use the measurement tool before their care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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