DEVELOPMENT OF A TOOL TO MEASURE FAMILY SOCIAL CAPITAL

本研究的目的是发展和评估一个工具来测量一个慢性疾病儿童的家庭的社会资本。 尽管有相当多的文献表明，社区支持，如喘息的健康相关的好处，很少有研究探讨了这些家庭作为一个家庭系统管理资源的过程。本研究将集中在喘息使用作为理解社会资本的背景下，定义为情感，行为和认知功能的家庭的社交网络，促进合作，互惠互利。 到目前为止，社会资本的研究已经在其他几个学科进行，但这是护理的第一个研究，以解决社会资本及其潜力，以解释涉及家庭和社区资源的相互作用的健康。 一个可靠的，有效的工具来评估社会资本的发展是一个研究计划，将最大限度地提高护士，社区和家庭的能力，以实现最佳健康互动的基础。 本研究的具体目的是：1）确定和抽样的内容领域的社会资本指标，并产生项目的家庭社会资本调查; 2）确定内容和表面效度的家庭社会资本调查;和3）心理测量评估的结构效度，内部一致性信度和重测信度的家庭社会资本调查。

The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate an instrument to measure social capital in families of a child with chronic illness. Despite considerable literature demonstrating health-related benefits of community supports such as respite, few studies have explored the processes by which these families manage resources as a family system. This study will focus on respite use as a context for understanding social capital, defined as the affective, behavioral, and cognitive features of the family's social networks that facilitate cooperation for mutual benefit. To date, research on social capital has been conducted in several other disciplines, however this is one of the first studies in nursing to address social capital and its potential to explain interactions involving families and community resources for health. The development of a reliable, valid tool to assess social capital is the foundation for a program of research that will maximize the ability of nurses, communities and families to interact for optimal health. The specific aims of this study are to: 1) Identify and sample the content domain for the indicators of social capital and generate items for the Family Social Capital Survey; 2) Determine the content and face validity of the FSCS; and 3) Psychometrically evaluate the FSCS for construct validity, internal consistency reliability, and test-retest reliability.