Background: In order to properly evaluate postpartum services in comprehensive health centers, encouraging women to use these services and presence of a reliable and valid tool, is necessary to design and assess mothers' perceptions of postpartum care.
Aim: Designed to evaluate the psychometric dimensions of Iranian version of Mothers' Perception of Postpartum Health care Questionnaire at Comprehensive Health Centers.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional study. The verbatim translation was used to translate the questionnaire from English to Persian. Face, content, and structural validity as well as reliability of the questionnaire were evaluated.
Findings: The results showed that the face, content, and structure validity as well as reliability of this questionnaire to be appropriate. The calculated Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the whole questionnaire was 0.668. Interclass correlation coefficient was 0.688, which confirmed divergent validity.
Conclusion: Mothers' Perception of Postpartum Health care Questionnaire at Comprehensive Health Centers is a valid and reliable questionnaire to measure mothers’ perceptions of these vital services.