Measuring Social Support with the Personal Resource Questionnaire

Weinert, Clarann; Brandt, Patricia

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“…Adherence Scale, 36 Personal Resource Questionnaire, 37,38 Beck Depression Inventory, 39 Perceived Stress Scale, 40 and the Spielberger State Anxiety Inventory. 41 We assessed medication adherence with a medication bottle containing 1 of the participant's oral diabetes medications fitted with a MEMS electronic monitoring pill cap (MEMS 6 Track Cap, AARDEX Ltd, Sion, Switzerland).…”

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Mexican American Trial of Community Health Workers: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Community Health Worker Intervention for Mexican Americans With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Rothschild

Martin²,

Swider³

et al. 2014

Am J Public Health

107

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Objectives. We assessed whether community health workers (CHWs) could improve glycemic control among Mexican Americans with diabetes. Methods. We recruited 144 Mexican Americans with type 2 diabetes between January 2006 and September 2008 into the single-blinded, randomized controlled Mexican American Trial of Community Health Workers (MATCH) and followed them for 2 years. Participants were assigned to either a CHW intervention, delivering self-management training through 36 home visits over 2 years, or a bilingual control newsletter delivering the same information on the same schedule. Results. Intervention participants showed significantly lower hemoglobin A1c levels than control participants at both year 1 Δ = −0.55; P = .021) and year 2 (Δ = −0.69; P = .005). We observed no effect on blood pressure control, glucose self-monitoring, or adherence to medications or diet. Intervention participants increased physical activity from a mean of 1.63 days per week at baseline to 2.64 days per week after 2 years. Conclusions. A self-management intervention delivered by CHWs resulted in sustained improvements in glycemic control over 2 years among Mexican Americans with diabetes. MATCH adds to the growing body of evidence supporting the use of CHWs to reduce diabetes-related health disparities.

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Mexican American Trial of Community Health Workers: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Community Health Worker Intervention for Mexican Americans With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Rothschild

Martin²,

Swider³

et al. 2014

Am J Public Health

107

159

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“…We used a Korean-translated Personal Resource Questionnaire (PRQ) as an additional measure of social support. The PRQ consists of Parts 1 and 2 (Weinert & Brandt, 1987). We used the 12 items on the PRQ-Part 1 to describe the sources of support utilized by the sample when urgent, financial, emotional, and long-term care needs arose, and the respondent's satisfaction with the support received in each situational category (1=very dissatisfied to 6=very satisfied).…”

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Correlates of Depression in the Korean American Elderly: Focusing on Personal Resources of Social Support

Han

Kim

Lee

et al. 2006

J Cross Cult Gerontol

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Today's Korean American elderly are predominantly first-generation immigrants who face stern challenges of acculturation, which is often associated with depression. Social support has been identified as an effective personal resource for alleviating acculturative stress and achieving better mental health outcomes. The purposes of this study were to describe available sources of social support utilized by Korean elders and to examine the relationships among acculturative stress, social support, and depression. In particular, social support was operationalized as an integrative concept encompassing the size of the social network, satisfaction with the support received, and appraisals of the level of social support. This study was a secondary data analysis of an existing survey of 205 elderly Korean immigrants (>or=60 years) in a major metropolitan city on the East coast. Adult children were found to be the main source of support utilized by elders, even when the elder had a living spouse. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis revealed that higher acculturative stress and lower social support were associated with higher depression scores after demographics and health status were controlled for, whereas network size and satisfaction with support were not. Future interventions should address the cultural/social needs of these immigrants, not only by reinforcing their existing social network but also by providing additional support for their family members to prevent social isolation and depression in the population.

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“…the Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965), the Personal Resource Questionnaire (Weinert and Brandt, 1987), the Inner Strength Questionnaire (Lewis and Roux, 2009) and the Resourcefulness Scale (Zauszniewsky et al, 2006). These scales and questionnaires have different theoretical origins: the Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale is based on Rosenberg's theory of global self esteem; the Personal Resource Questionnaire is based on the theory of relational provisions of social support the Inner Strength Questionnaire stems from a middle range theory of inner strength, and the Resourcefulness Scale from Rosenbaum's theory about dimensions of resourcefulness (Rosenbaum, 1990).…”

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Development and psychometric properties of the Inner Strength Scale

Lundman

Viglund

Aléx

et al. 2011

International Journal of Nursing Studies

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Background: Four dimensions of inner strength were previously identified in a metatheoretical analysis: firmness, creativity, connectedness, and flexibility.Objective: The aim of this study was to develop an Inner Strength Scale (ISS) based on those four dimensions and to evaluate its psychometric properties.Method: An initial version of ISS was distributed for validation purpose with the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, the Resilience Scale, and the Sense of coherence Scale. A convenience sample of 391 adults, aged 19 to 90 years participated. Principal component analysis (PCA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were used in the process of exploring, evaluating, and reducing the 63-item ISS to the 20-item ISS. Cronbach's alpha and test-retest were used to measure reliability.Results: CFA showed satisfactory goodness-of-fit for the 20-item ISS. The analysis supported a four-factor solution explaining 51% of the variance. Cronbach`s alpha on the 20-item ISS was 0.86, and the test-retest showed stability over time (r = 0.79). Conclusion:The ISS was found to be a valid and reliable instrument for capturing a multifaceted understanding of inner strength. Further tests of psychometric properties of the ISS will be performed in forthcoming studies. What this paper adds A new scale, the Inner Strength Scale, has been developed to estimate the four dimensions of firmness, creativity, connectedness, and flexibility. The Inner Strength Scale was found to have satisfactory validity and reliability. The Inner Strength Scale was found to be applicable to men and women of various ages.

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Measuring Social Support with the Personal Resource Questionnaire

Cited by 194 publications

References 15 publications

Mexican American Trial of Community Health Workers: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Community Health Worker Intervention for Mexican Americans With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Mexican American Trial of Community Health Workers: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Community Health Worker Intervention for Mexican Americans With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Correlates of Depression in the Korean American Elderly: Focusing on Personal Resources of Social Support

Development and psychometric properties of the Inner Strength Scale

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