Psychometric properties of the original and short Hungarian version of the Iowa infant feeding attitude scale

Table 5 Some statistical results when analyzing the original and the three shortened forms of the Hungarian version of IIFAS (n = 553)

	Hungarian versions of IIFAS
	17 items	11 items	9 items	8 items
Cronbach’s alpha	0.73	0.79	0.79	0.76
Correlation^a of IIFAS score with…
feeding status at 4 months of age	0.47 (p < 0.01)	0.49 (p < 0.01)	0.49 (p < 0.01)	0.47 (p < 0.01)
feeding status at 6 months of age	0.55 (p < 0.01)	0.56 (p < 0.01)	0.55 (p < 0.01)	0.52 (p < 0.01)
Results of hierarchical logistic regression if the dependent variable is exclusive breastfeeding at 6 months of age
Nagelkerke’s R² of the first model^b	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
Nagelkerke’s R² of the second model^c	0.39	0.44	0.44	0.41
OR of IIFAS score in the second model^c	1.18	1.24	1.26	1.28

^aSpearman’s rank correlation
^bUsing maternal age, maternal education level, and number of biological children as predictors
^cUsing maternal age, maternal education level, number of biological children, and IIFAS score as predictors

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