title: [The assessment of family resources and need for help: Construct validity and reliability of the Systematic Exploration and Process Inventory for health professionals in early childhood intervention services (SEVG)].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Health professionals in early childhood intervention and prevention make an important contribution by helping burdened families with young children cope with everyday life and child raising issues. A prerequisite for success is the health professionals' ability to tailor their services to the specific needs of families.
  
  
  METHODS
  The "Systematic Exploration and Process Inventory for health professionals in early childhood intervention services (SEVG)" can be used to identify each family's individual resources and needs, enabling a valid, reliable and objective assessment of the conditions and the process of counseling service. The present paper presents the statistical analyses that were used to confirm the reliability of the inventory.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Based on the results of the reliability analysis and principal component analysis (PCA), the SEVG seems to be a reliable and objective inventory for assessing families' need for support. It also allows for calculation of average values of each scale.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The development of valid and reliable assessments is essential to quality assurance and the professionalization of interventions in early childhood service.
authors.affiliation: Nationales Zentrum Frühe Hilfen (NZFH) in der Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA), Köln, Germany. Electronic address: sara.scharmanski@nzfh.de.
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Scharmanski
authors.affiliation: Nationales Zentrum Frühe Hilfen (NZFH) in der Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA), Köln, Germany.
authors.forename: Ilona
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Renner
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005190:Family; D005858:Germany; D006282:Health Personnel; D006293:Health Promotion; D006295:Health Resources; D006801:Humans; D010372:Pediatrics; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*
keywords: Familienhebamme; Frühe Hilfen; Hauptkomponentenanalyse; Ressourcen; early childhood intervention; family midwife; principal component analysis; resources