DEVELOPMENT OF A TOOL TO MEASURE FAMILY SOCIAL CAPITAL

本研究的目的是开发和评估一种测量慢性病儿童家庭社会资本的工具。尽管有相当多的文献表明，社区支持对健康有好处，但很少有研究探讨这些家庭作为家庭系统管理资源的过程。这项研究将重点放在暂缓使用作为理解社会资本的背景下，社会资本的定义是家庭的社会网络的情感、行为和认知特征，促进合作以实现互利。到目前为止，关于社会资本的研究已经在其他几个学科中进行，然而这是护理领域中首批解决社会资本及其解释涉及家庭和社区健康资源的互动的研究之一。开发一种可靠、有效的工具来评估社会资本是研究计划的基础，该计划将最大限度地提高护士、社区和家庭互动的能力，以实现最佳健康。本研究的具体目的是：1)识别和抽样社会资本指标的内容域，并生成家庭社会资本调查的条目；2)确定FSCS的内容和表面效度；3)对FSCS的结构效度、内部一致性信度和重测信度进行心理计量学评估。

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.