Chen Jyu-Lin, Kennedy Christine, Kools Susan, Slaughter Robert E, Franck Linda, Kong Sarah K, Wong Thomas K
University of California, San Francisco, Department of Family Health Care Nursing, 2 Koret Way, Box 0606, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
J Nurs Meas. 2003 Spring-Summer;11(1):41-60. doi: 10.1891/jnum.11.1.41.52063.
As part of a larger study, we investigated the adaptation of the Family Assessment Device (FAD) to a Chinese population of hospitalized children (N = 313) compared to a sample of families with healthy children (N = 29) in Hong Kong and Chinese Mainland. Confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) were performed to examine the FAD structure. The results supported the notion of cultural variations in measuring family functioning. Eight factors were found to explain 30.34% of the variance in family functioning. The Cronbach's alphas of families with hospitalized children ranged from 0.29 to 0.74. Similar reliability scores were found in nonhospitalized families. This study indicates that the Chinese FAD has a different factor structure, reliabilities, and mean scores in several subscales compared to U.S. studies. The psychometric properties of the Chinese FAD may be influenced by the fact that the sample was focused on children rather than adults.
作为一项更大规模研究的一部分，我们调查了家庭评估量表（FAD）在中国住院儿童群体（N = 313）中的适用性，并与中国香港和中国大陆的健康儿童家庭样本（N = 29）进行了比较。采用验证性因素分析和探索性因素分析（EFA）来检验FAD的结构。结果支持了在衡量家庭功能方面存在文化差异的观点。发现八个因素解释了家庭功能差异的30.34%。住院儿童家庭的克朗巴哈系数范围为0.29至0.74。在非住院家庭中也发现了类似的信度分数。这项研究表明，与美国的研究相比，中文版FAD具有不同的因素结构、信度以及几个分量表的平均分。中文版FAD的心理测量特性可能受到样本集中于儿童而非成人这一事实的影响。
