The Duke-UNC Functional Social Support Questionnaire: Measurement of Social Support in Family Medicine Patients

A 14-item, self-administered, multidimensional, functional social support questionnaire was designed and evaluated on 401 patients attending a family medicine clinic. Patients were selected from randomized time-frame sampling blocks during regular office hours. The population was predominantly white...

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Published in:Medical care 1988-07, Vol.26 (7), p.709-723
Main Authors: Broadhead, W. E., Gehlbach, Stephen H., de Gruy, Frank V., Kaplan, Berton H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Age
Aged
Confidants
Correlation coefficients
Correlations
Demography
Educational Status
Employment
Evaluation Studies as Topic
Factor analysis
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Family Practice
Female
Health Status
Humans
Male
Marriage
Middle Aged
North Carolina
Occupations
Older adults
Primary Health Care - statistics & numerical data
Public health
Questionnaires
Research Design
Social Environment
Social networking
Social Support
Socioeconomic Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires
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Summary:A 14-item, self-administered, multidimensional, functional social support questionnaire was designed and evaluated on 401 patients attending a family medicine clinic. Patients were selected from randomized time-frame sampling blocks during regular office hours. The population was predominantly white, female, married, and under age 45. Eleven items remained after test-retest reliability was assessed over a 1- to 4-week follow-up period. Factor analysis and item remainder analysis reduced the remaining 11 items to a brief and easy-to-complete two-scale, eight-item functional social support instrument. Construct validity, concurrent validity, and discriminant validity are demonstrated for the two scales (confidant support-five items and affective support-three items). Factor analysis and correlations with other measures of social support suggest that the three remaining items (visits, instrumental support, and praise) are distinct entities that may need further study.
ISSN:0025-7079
1537-1948
DOI:10.1097/00005650-198807000-00006