Validity and reliability of the Persian version of Woman Abuse Screening Tool (WAST)

Domestic violation against women is one of the serious problems of public health. The Women Abuse Screening Tool (WAST) is able to identify the abused woman. The aim of this study was to assess validity and reliability of the Persian version of Women Abuse Screening Tool.
This was a cross-sectional study. The English version of Women Abuse Screening Tool was translated into Persian using forward-backward procedure. The final Persian version was completed by 80 married women in 2017. Exploratory factor analysis was used to assess construct validity. Relaubility of the tool was assessed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient and test-retest analysis.
Exploratory factor analysis confirmed two-factor structure for the scale. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the scale was 0.84 and intra-class correlation was 0.81 indicating that the scale had appropriate reliability.
The findings of the study showed that the Persian version of Women Abuse Screening Tool is a valid and reliable measure for screening abused women in Iran.