Development of New Item Clusters for the HOME Inventory

描述（由申请人提供）：住房清单是世界上最广泛使用的家庭环境衡量标准之一。它提供了儿童在家经历的六到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。目前四种基于年龄的清单（涵盖婴儿期至青春期早期）已在数百种出版物中使用，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。它被用于不同的种族和民族群体。它是由美国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，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），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，该措施也有局限性，需要更新HOME，以便它能够捕捉到不同人群家庭环境的关键方面。还需要扩大该措施，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发展关系。本项目的目的是对家庭生活和儿童发展方面的专家进行必要的咨询，查阅相关文献，对现有的家庭问卷形式和相关措施进行二次数据分析，构建候选指标集，用于全面重新标准化、改革和验证现有的年龄相关版本，并构建新的青春期中后期版本。将为五个计划版本的家庭教育系统各确定大约80个候选指标。这样的修订和新版本的增加将使新一代的纵向研究能够涵盖童年的所有时期。新版本也将使它对跨文化研究更有用。

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.