Journal article
Conceptualizing and measuring family quality of life
Journal of intellectual disability research, Vol.49(10), pp.777-783
10/2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2005.00751.x
PMID: 16162127
Abstract
Background: Increasing emphasis on family-centred approaches to services and supports for families of children with disabilities has surfaced the issue of accountability for family outcomes. We present a review of literature about the impacts of children with disabilities on families as a backdrop to proposing family quality of life as a concept that encompasses impacts of disability and one that can be used to assess the impact of supports and services on families. Method: We briefly introduce the Beach Center Family Quality of Life Scale, providing information about its factor structure, reliability and convergent validity. Results: The Beach Center Family Quality of Life Scale contains 25 items assessing family ratings of importance and satisfaction with five domains: Family interaction, Parenting, Emotional well-being, Physical/material well-being and Disability-related supports. Conclusion: We present a framework for utilizing a measure of family quality of life as a long-term outcome in concert with other short-term measures of service outcomes for families. © 2005 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Conceptualizing and measuring family quality of life
- Creators
- J. A. Summers - University of KansasD. J. Poston - University of KansasA. P. Turnbull - University of KansasJ. Marquis - University of KansasL. Hoffman - Pennsylvania State UniversityH. Mannan - University of KansasM. Wang - Rowan University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of intellectual disability research, Vol.49(10), pp.777-783
- Publisher
- Blackwell Science Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2005.00751.x
- PMID
- 16162127
- ISSN
- 0964-2633
- eISSN
- 1365-2788
- Number of pages
- 7
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/2005
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
- Record Identifier
- 9984371119202771
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