Tehran University of Medical Sciences Iranian Journal of Public Health 2251-6085 46 5 2017 05 09 640 649 Fatemeh ZAREI Dept. of Health Education and Health Promotion, School of Public Health, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran Mahnaz SOLHI Dept. of Health Education and Health Promotion, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Effat MERGHATI-KHOEI Iranian National Center of Addiction Studies (INCAS), Sexual and Family Health Division, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Mohammad Hossein TAGHDISI Dept. of Health Education and Health Promotion, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Davoud SHOJAEIZADEH Dept. of Health Education and Health Promotion, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Ann Rosemary TAKET Center for Health Through Action on Social Exclusion, School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Razieh MASOOMI Dept. of Reproductive Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Saharnaz NEDJAT Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2017 05 09 2017 05 09 Background: Divorce, especially in women, could be assessed from socio-cultural perspective as well as psychological viewpoint. This assessment requires cultural adopted as well as valid and reliable questionnaire. This study aimed to develop and assess the psychometric properties of a questionnaire in order to address social consequences in Iranian divorced women. Methods: This was an exploratory mixed method study conducted during 2012 to 2014. According to the grounded theory approach in the first phase, social exclusion was extracted as a core of understanding process in participants. Based on, 47 preliminary generated items reliability and validity were assessed. In the second phase, the divorced women were recruited from a safe community center in Tehran through convenience sampling. Results: Exploratory factor analysis conducted on the questionnaires of 150 divorced women with mean age 41.76±8.49 yr, in that, indicated five dimensions, discriminative marital status, economic dependence on marital status, exclusionary marital status, and traumatic marital status health risks and, frightening marital status that jointly accounted for the 64% of the variance observed. An expert panel approved the face and content validity of the developed tool. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient and the Intra-class Correlation Coefficient were found to be 0.70 and 0.85, respectively. Conclusion: The present study provided a valid and reliable measure as Social Exclusion Questionnaire in Iranian divorced women (SEQ-IDW) to address social post-divorce consequences, which might help to improve women’s social health. https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/view/9913 https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/download/9913/5710