Development of New Item Clusters for the HOME Inventory

描述(由申请人提供)：家庭库存是世界上使用最广泛的家庭环境衡量标准之一。它提供了儿童在家中经历的六到八个关键方面的信息(取决于儿童的年龄)。它已经在40多个国家使用。目前这份清单的四个基于年龄的版本(涵盖婴儿期到青春期早期)已在数百份出版物中使用，目前正被用作涉及家庭生活和儿童健康与发展的许多纵向研究的一部分。它正在与不同的种族和民族群体一起使用。它是由国立卫生研究院和相关机构赞助的几项主要纵向调查的一部分，这些机构包括国家青年纵向调查(NICHD)、收入动态小组研究(NICHD)、新移民研究(NICHD)、早期启动研究和评估研究(ACF)、母亲生活方式研究(NIDA)、家庭生活项目(NICHD)和儿童遗产研究(CDC)。即便如此，该措施仍有局限性，需要更新房屋，以便为不同人群捕捉家庭环境的关键方面。还需要扩大这一措施，使其适用于青春期中后期的儿童，从而能够持续研究从婴儿期到青春期的环境与发展的关系。该项目的目的是与家庭生活和儿童发展方面的专家进行必要的磋商，审查相关文献，并对当前形式的家庭清单和相关措施进行二级数据分析，以构建可用于全面重新标准化、调整和确认现行家庭清单的候选指标集，并为青春期中后期编制一个新版本。将为HOME计划的五个版本中的每一个确定大约80个候选指标。这样的修订和新版本的增加将使新一代纵向研究能够涵盖所有童年时期。新的版本也将使其在跨文化研究中更加有用。 公共卫生相关性：儿童在家庭环境中的经历与他们的健康和发展道路有很大关系。家庭清单是世界上使用最广泛的儿童环境衡量标准之一，目前用于正在进行的几项关于儿童福祉的国家调查。该项目的目的是确定要列入家庭清单修订版的多套候选指标，以便更好地了解不同文化群体的家庭经历的关键方面，并将其应用于青春期后期的儿童。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The HOME Inventory is one of the world's most widely used measures of the home environment. It provides information from six to eight key dimensions of children's experiences at home (depending upon the age of the child). It has been used in more than 40 countries. The four current age-based versions of the Inventory (covering infancy through early adolescence) have been used in hundreds of publications and are currently being used as part of numerous longitudinal studies involving family life and child health and development. It is being used with a diversity of racial and ethnic groups. It is a part of several major longitudinal surveys sponsored by NIH and related agencies, including The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NICHD), The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (NICHD), The New Immigrant Study (NICHD), The Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Study (ACF), The Maternal Lifestyle Study (NIDA), The Family Life Project (NICHD), and The Legacy of Children Study (CDC). Even so, the measure has limitations and there is need to update HOME so that it captures key aspects of the home environment for diverse populations. There is also need to extend the measure so that it applies to children in mid-to-late adolescence, thus allowing continuous study of environment-development relations from infancy through adolescence. The aim of this project is to do the necessary consultations with experts in family life and child development, review of relevant literature, and secondary data analysis of current forms of the HOME Inventory and related measures so as to construct candidate sets of indicators that can be used for a full scale restandardization, renorming and validation of the current for age-related version plus construction of a new version for mid-to-late adolescence. Approximately 80 candidate indicators for each of the five planned versions of HOME will be identified. Such revisions and the addition of the new version will enable a new generation of longitudinal studies that cover all periods of childhood. The new versions will make it more useful for cross-cultural studies as well. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: What children experience in their home environments is strongly implicated their paths of health and development. The HOME Inventory is among the most widely used measures of children's environment throughout the world and is currently used in several ongoing national surveys of child well-being. The purpose of this project is to identify sets of candidate indicators to be included in revised versions of the HOME Inventory so that it better captures key aspects of home experience for diverse cultural groups and to extend its usefulness to children in late adolescence.