Spanish adaptation and validation of the Family Quality of Life Survey

Alonso Verdugo, Ángel Miguel, Córdoba, L., Benito Gómez, Juana

Description

Colecciones : GID. Artículos del Grupo de Investigación sobre Discapacidad
Fecha de publicación : oct-2005
Background: Assessing the quality of life (QOL) for families that include a person with a dissability have recently becone a major emphasis in cross-cultural QOL studies. The present study examined the reliability and validity of the Family Quality of Life Survey (FQOL) on a Spanish sample.Method and results: The sample comprise 385 families who were administered the FQOL in Cali, Columbia. The FQOL showed adequate temporal stability (r = o.68 on Importance and r = o.78 on Satisfaction) and excellent internal consistency: Cronbach's alpha of 0.96 for Importance and 0.95 for Satisfaction. The confirmatory factor analysis yielded high fit indices, thus confirming that the factor structure of the FQOL as adapted for Spanish people fitted the five-factor model proposed by the survey's authors.Conclusions: The study provides a valid instrument for the research of the QOL of those families that have a child with a disability within Spanish-speaking community.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: Salamanca
• Publié le: 01 octobre 2005
• Nombre de lectures: 8
• Licence : En savoir +
  Paternité, pas d'utilisation commerciale, partage des conditions initiales à l'identique
• Langue: Español

Extrait

                                                 

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research volume 49 part 10 pp 794 – 798 october 2005 Blackwell Science, LtdOxford, UKJIRJournal of Intellectual Disability Research0964-2633Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2005 2005 49 10794798 Original Article Family quality of lifeM. A. Verdugo et al.

Abstract Introduction Background Assessing the quality of life (QOL) for  Family assessment instruments have focused on vari- families that include a person with a disability have  ables such as stress and coping strategies, parenting, recently become a major emphasis in cross-cultural  home environment, marital relationship or family QOL studies. The present study examined the  needs. At best, the instruments to date have evaluated reliability and validity of the Family Quality of Life  family satisfaction with the care services provided to Survey (FQOL) on a Spanish sample.  the person with disability, but they have not analysed Method and results The sample comprised 385 fam- family  quality of life (QOL) from a holistic perspec- ilies who were administered the FQOL in Cali,  tive (Bailey et al.  1998 ; Browne & Bramster 1998 ; Columbia. The FQOL showed adequate temporal  Ireys & Perry 1999 ; Rubio et al.  1999 ). stability ( r  =  0 . 68 on Importance and r  =  0 . 78 on Sat-  Over the last decade it has been suggested that the isfaction) and excellent internal consistency: Cron-  study of families with children with disabilities should bach’s alpha of 0 . 96 for Importance and 0 . 95 for modify  its psychopathological approach and focus on Satisfaction.The confirmatory factor analysis yielded  the family assets to improve its potentials and capa- high fit indices, thus confirming that the factor struc-  bilities (Turnbull et al.  1999 ; Wehman 2000 ; ture of the FQOL as adapted for Spanish people  Turnbull & Turnbull 2001 ). The whole family is seen fitted the five-factor model proposed by the survey’s  as a support unit (Schalock & Verdugo 2002 ) that authors. collaborates  with service providers and other families.  Conclusions The study provides a valid instrument  The aim is not to ‘treat’ the family as the psychother- for the research of the QOL of those families that  apeutic object but to meet their specific needs and have a child with a disability within Spanish-speaking  expectations. community. The  Beach Center on Families and Disability at Keywords confirmatory factor analysis, family  the University of Kansas has proposed a multidimen- quality of life, intellectual disability, test adaptation  sional model of QOL that includes domains and indi- cators focused on the person and the family (Park et al.  2003 ; Poston et al.  2003 ). Family QOL is mea- sured by means of the Family Quality of Life Survey Correspondence: Miguel A. Verdugo PhD, INICO, Universidad de (FQOL), a tool that combines methodological plu- Salamanca, 37005 Salamanca, Spain (e-mail: [e-mail]). ralism (i.e. the integration of quantitative and quali- © 2005 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Spanish adaptation and validation of the Family Quality of Life Survey M. A. Verdugo, 1 L. Córdoba 2 & J. Gómez 3 1 INICO, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain 2 University Javeriana of Cali, Cali, Columbia 3 University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

794

