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疾病儿童家庭社会资本的工具。尽管有大量文献表明社区支持（如休息）对健康有益，但很少有研究探索这些家庭作为一个家庭系统管理资源的过程。本研究将重点放在作为理解社会资本的背景下，社会资本被定义为促进互利合作的家庭社会网络的情感、行为和认知特征。迄今为止，关于社会资本的研究已经在其他几个学科中进行，但这是护理领域第一次研究社会资本及其解释涉及家庭和社区资源的健康相互作用的潜力。开发一种可靠、有效的工具来评估社会资本，是一个研究项目的基础，该项目将最大限度地提高护士、社区和家庭相互作用的能力，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，并为家庭社会资本调查生成项目；2)确定FSCS的内容和表面有效性；3)心理计量学评价FSCS的结构效度、内部一致性信度和重测信度。

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.