Lucier-Greer Mallory, O'Neal Catherine Walker, Cooper Erin, Vandenberg Carlynn, Quichocho Davina, Sherman Haley
Department of Human Development & Family Science, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States.
Department of Human Development & Family Science, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States.
J Marital Fam Ther. 2025 Jul;51(3):e70038. doi: 10.1111/jmft.70038.
Service members, Veterans, and military families regularly seek clinical care from civilian providers, and military cultural competence is critical for effective service provision. This study outlines the development and evaluation of three brief measures designed to assess military cultural competence among human service helping professionals. Participants were 258 diverse professionals. A series of psychometric analyses were conducted, including confirmatory factor analyses, tests for measurement invariance, and assessments of scale reliability and validity for each measure: Perceived Military Cultural Knowledge and Skills, Military Client Intervention Confidence, and Informed Practice Serving Military-Connected Clients. Results indicated good model fit. Measures were internally consistent, showed convergent, discriminant, and criterion validity, and demonstrated invariance over time. This initial study demonstrates that the three measures appear to be distinct, reliable, valid, and appropriate for use. Helping professionals and researchers can use these measures to assess military cultural competence for self-assessment, in training programs, and/or in research.
军人、退伍军人及其军属经常向民间医疗服务提供者寻求临床护理,而军事文化能力对于有效提供服务至关重要。本研究概述了三项简短测评工具的开发与评估,这些工具旨在评估人类服务专业人员的军事文化能力。参与者为258名不同专业的人员。进行了一系列心理测量分析,包括验证性因素分析、测量不变性检验以及对每项测评工具(即感知军事文化知识与技能、军事服务对象干预信心、为与军事相关服务对象提供知情服务)的量表信度和效度评估。结果表明模型拟合良好。这些测评工具内部一致,具有收敛效度、区分效度和效标效度,且随时间保持不变性。这项初步研究表明,这三项测评工具似乎具有独特性、可靠性、有效性且适用。专业服务人员和研究人员可以使用这些测评工具在自我评估、培训项目和/或研究中评估军事文化能力。