TY - JOUR
T1 - Test–retest reliability and validity of a single-item Self-reported Family Happiness Scale in Hong Kong Chinese
T2 - findings from Hong Kong Jockey Club FAMILY Project
AU - Shen, Chen
AU - Wang, Man Ping
AU - Ho, Henry C.Y.
AU - Wan, Alice
AU - Stewart, Sunita M.
AU - Viswanath, Kasisomayajula
AU - Chan, Sophia Siu Chee
AU - Lam, Tai Hing
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements The project was funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. The authors wish to thank the participants who participated in the telephone surveys and the Public Opinion Programme (HKU) officials for conducting the surveys.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2019/2/15
Y1 - 2019/2/15
N2 - Purpose: Family happiness is one major theme of family well-being in Chinese culture. We investigated the reliability and validity of the single-item Self-reported Family Happiness Scale (SFHS-1) with the score of 0–10, based on two studies in Hong Kong Chinese. Methods: Study 1 was a territory-wide population-based telephone survey (n = 4038) conducted in 2016. Study 2 was a community-based family intervention program conducted during 2012–2013 (n = 1261) to enhance family communication and well-being. Test–retest reliability of the SFHS-1 was assessed over 1 month in Study 2. Family APGAR (Adaption, Partnership, Growth, Affection, Resolve) Scale, Family Communication Scale, Subjective Happiness Scale, 12-item Short Form Health Survey Version 2, and 2-item Patient Health Questionnaire were used to assess the convergent and discriminant validities of the SFHS-1 in both studies. Multiple regression analysis was used to assess the incremental validity by identifying the additional contribution of the SFHS-1 score in predicting subjective happiness. Results: The 1-month test–retest reliability assessed by intraclass correlation was 0.76. Family happiness was moderately to strongly correlated with family function, family communication, subjective happiness, mental health-related quality of life and depression, but weakly correlated with physical health-related quality of life. Furthermore, the score of the SFHS-1 added predictive power to mental health-related quality of life and depression in assessing subjective happiness. Conclusions: Our results have shown the SFHS-1 as a reliable and valid measurement of family happiness in Hong Kong Chinese, suggesting SFHS-1 is highly practicable for future large epidemiological and community-based intervention studies.
AB - Purpose: Family happiness is one major theme of family well-being in Chinese culture. We investigated the reliability and validity of the single-item Self-reported Family Happiness Scale (SFHS-1) with the score of 0–10, based on two studies in Hong Kong Chinese. Methods: Study 1 was a territory-wide population-based telephone survey (n = 4038) conducted in 2016. Study 2 was a community-based family intervention program conducted during 2012–2013 (n = 1261) to enhance family communication and well-being. Test–retest reliability of the SFHS-1 was assessed over 1 month in Study 2. Family APGAR (Adaption, Partnership, Growth, Affection, Resolve) Scale, Family Communication Scale, Subjective Happiness Scale, 12-item Short Form Health Survey Version 2, and 2-item Patient Health Questionnaire were used to assess the convergent and discriminant validities of the SFHS-1 in both studies. Multiple regression analysis was used to assess the incremental validity by identifying the additional contribution of the SFHS-1 score in predicting subjective happiness. Results: The 1-month test–retest reliability assessed by intraclass correlation was 0.76. Family happiness was moderately to strongly correlated with family function, family communication, subjective happiness, mental health-related quality of life and depression, but weakly correlated with physical health-related quality of life. Furthermore, the score of the SFHS-1 added predictive power to mental health-related quality of life and depression in assessing subjective happiness. Conclusions: Our results have shown the SFHS-1 as a reliable and valid measurement of family happiness in Hong Kong Chinese, suggesting SFHS-1 is highly practicable for future large epidemiological and community-based intervention studies.
KW - Family happiness
KW - Quality of life
KW - Reliability
KW - Single-item scale
KW - Validity
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U2 - 10.1007/s11136-018-2019-9
DO - 10.1007/s11136-018-2019-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 30284182
AN - SCOPUS:85054474220
VL - 28
SP - 535
EP - 543
JO - Quality of Life Research
JF - Quality of Life Research
SN - 0962-9343
IS - 2
ER -