Instrument Repository
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Family Impact subscale of PedsQL
A subscale of the PedsQL designed to measure functioning in families with a child with a chronic health conditios. Eight questions measure impact on family's daily activities and relationships. Parent provides responses. Available in multiple languages; initial psychometric testing conducted.
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Family Profile II
Developed to assess family functioning across 12 dimensions to identify areas of "strength" and "need" to guide families and practitioners in "family life education." Twelve areas include: kindness, unkindness, communication, disengagement, enmeshed, bridging, financial management, self-reliance, work orientation, daily chores, sacred orientation, rituals, quality of family relationships, which and encompassed within 3 dimensions: family process, external resources, family management. Can be completed by > 1 family member to create a visual depiction of family across the 12 subscales. Psychometrically tested.
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Family Resilience Inventory
A measure of family resilience originally developed for use in Native American communities but thought by developers to be useful in other ethnic minority populations. Measures family protective and promotive factors from a strength-based perspective (as opposed to deficit-based. Includes 20 questions that can be used to assess current family or family of origin or both. Psychometrically tested with individuals from 2 tribes in southeastern US.
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Family Resilience Scale for Veterans (FRS-V)
A measure of family resilience specifically developed to assess resources available for US veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, incorporating dimensions of communication, problem solving, emotional support, social support, goal orientation, and spirituality. Intended to capture family structures common among military families, as "those people who are most important in your daily life, not necessarily kin or blood relatives." Psychometrically tested among veterans; future work to expand to all military families.
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Family Resource Scale (FRS)
Measures the accessibility of tangible and intangible resources for families with young children (such as transportation, childcare, healthcare, money for toys, time for adequate sleep). Developed as a clinical tool to help practitioners developing treatment and intervention plans for families with young children. Intended for use in intervention settings to identify families where priorities to meet basic needs may distract from commitment to other services, or to identify resource gaps that could be filled to improve child well-being via family. Limited psychometric testing.
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Family Ritual Questionnaire
Family functioning and interactions is conceptualized through the rituals that a family performs. Rituals are a component of the family environment and can describe how a family interacts internally and with the external environment. Rituals include patterned interactions (e.g., dinner times), family traditions (e.g., birthdays), and celebrations (e.g., weddings, holidays). The measure captures settings in which rituals are performed (weekends, vacations, etc.) and their dimensions (occurrence, roles, routine, attendance, affect, symbolic significance, continuation, deliberateness), indicating both how they create meaning within the family and their incidence. Psychometric testing conducted in original development and in subsequent samples.
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Family Sense of Coherence and Family Adaptation
Applies sense of coherence (SOC) to family life to assess how adaptable families are to stressors. Family sense of coherence is how family unit 'sees the world.' Adaptation is how members 'fit' with each other and 'fit' with the community. Both spouses provide responses based on premise that all family members' perspectives must contribute to any assessment of the unit as a whole. Two instruments combine to form score: 26-item family sense of coherence and 10-item family adaptation. Testing compared SOC with adaptation in families experiencing stressors with hypothesis that higher coherence is correlated with higher adaptation. 13-item short form is most commonly used and has been most commonly translated.
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Family Wellbeing subscale in the Family Appraisal of Caregiving Questionnaire for Palliative Care
Developed to assess "caregiver appraisal" while caring for a family member receiving home-based palliative care, originally in cancer context but could be used in others. Intended to capture positive and negative components of experience, across 4 dimensions: caregiver strain, positive caregiving appraisals, caregiver distress, and family well-being. Each dimension has a subscale and can be used independently. Development included literature review, expert input, and testing with family caregivers. Designed for use as an assessment instrument or an outcome measure for palliative care interventions.
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Functional Status II-R (FSII-R)–FSIIR Infants: Functional Status II Revised, long version, Infants
Generic Measure domains: Communication, Mobility, Mood, Energy, Play, Sleep, Eating And Toileting Patterns. FSIIR Infants- General health; total functional status; responsiveness Summary of development: Stein & Jessop (1982) worked with the Pediatric Ambulatory Care Treatment Study (PACTS), a large-scale, longitudinal study of chronically ill children. Stein & Jessop (1982) used their clinical experience, interviewed experts, and conducted literature searches to identify instruments that measure illness burden and functional status of children with various medical conditions. Qualitative interviews with families of children with chronic diseases were done to help identify common themes (Stein & Jessop 1989). Stein & Jessop (1990) developed the FSIIR based on an earlier measure, the FSI, which measures ADL in adults. The FSI was modeled for adults. FSIIR is for people aged 0-16, and there are five different versions, which vary depending upon age intervals and slightly different domain categories that are age-appropriate, and the number of items: infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children. The newest short version was designed to measure overall wellbeing of people aged 0-16. Five versions: Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers, School children, Short version