Quality of the development of self-report instruments assessing women’s antepartum expectations of motherhood: a systematic review

Table 2. Updated criteria for good measurement properties.

Table 3. COSMIN Definitions of quality levels using the modified GRADE approach.

Table 4. Recommendations for future use and development of instruments per category.

Figure 1. PRISMA flow diagram showing study selection process and exclusion criteria.

Table 5. Characteristics of included self-report instruments.

Table 6. Synthesis of quality of studies on a measurement property, pooled ratings of results, and the quality of evidence (GRADE).

Table 7. Recommendations per instrument.

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