title: Development of a supplement to the HOME Scale for children living in impoverished urban environments.
abstract: A Supplement to the HOME (Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment Scale) for impoverished Families (SHIF) was developed for use with young children living in impoverished urban environments. After interviews with clinicians and pilot studies with families, we developed 20 items and added them to the HOME. The supplement was field tested in a sample of 73 high-risk families to evaluate its psychometric properties and ease of use. During the home visit, the Nursing Child Assessment Feeding Scale and the Nursing Child Assessment Teaching Scale were also administered to examine construct validity. Results indicated that the SHIF provided new clinical data, was easy to administer, and, when added to the HOME, had good psychometric properties, e.g., high inter-rater reliability, internal consistency, item-total reliability, and intact construct validity. The SHIF offers a reliable and valid addition to the HOME for use with young children living in impoverished urban environments.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8064, USA.
authors.forename: I O
authors.initials: IO
authors.lastname: Ertem
authors.forename: B W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Forsyth
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Avni-Singer
authors.forename: L K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Damour
authors.forename: D V
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: Cicchetti
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002669:Child Welfare; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011203:Poverty; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000592:standards*; D011610:Psychosocial Deprivation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012494:Sampling Studies; D014504:Urban Health