Development of New Item Clusters for the HOME Inventory

描述（由申请人提供）：家庭清单是世界上最广泛使用的家庭环境措施之一。它提供了儿童在家中经历的六至八个关键方面的信息（取决于儿童的年龄）。它已在40多个国家使用。该清单目前的四个按年龄划分的版本（涵盖婴儿期至青春期早期）已被用于数百种出版物，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。它正被用于各种种族和族裔群体。它是NIH和相关机构赞助的几项主要纵向调查的一部分，包括全国青年纵向调查（NICHD），收入动态小组研究（NICHD），新移民研究（NICHD），早期开端研究和评估研究（ACF），产妇生活方式研究（NIDA），家庭生活项目（NICHD）和儿童遗产研究（CDC）。即便如此，这一措施也有其局限性，需要更新家庭环境，使其能够反映不同人口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，从而能够从婴儿期到青春期不断研究环境与发展的关系。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协商，审查有关文献，并对目前形式的家庭生活清单和有关措施进行二级数据分析，以便建立可用于全面重新标准化的候选指标集，对当前与年龄相关的版本进行重新规范和验证，并为青春期中后期构建新版本。将为五个计划中的居家环境评估版本中的每一个版本确定大约80个候选指标。这种修订和新版本的增加将使新一代的纵向研究能够涵盖儿童的所有阶段。新的版本也将使它对跨文化研究更有用。 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密切相关。家庭清单是全世界最广泛使用的儿童环境衡量标准之一，目前正在进行的几项儿童福祉国家调查中使用。该项目的目的是确定几套候选指标，列入家庭清单修订版，以便更好地反映不同文化群体家庭经验的关键方面，并将其适用范围扩大到青春期后期的儿童。

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.