THE HOME SCALEThe Influence of Socioeconomic Status on the Evaluation of the Home Environment
作者:
MARILYN LOTA,
JOY PENTICUFF,
BARBARA MEDOFF-COOPER,
DOROTHY BROOTEN,
LINDA BROWN,
期刊:
Nursing Research
(OVID Available online 1992)
卷期:
Volume 41,
issue 6
页码: 338-341
ISSN:0029-6562
年代: 1992
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Caldwell's Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) was developed to provide specific and sensitive information about the home and maternal environment as a stimulus to infant learning and development. The use of the HOME scale was examined in a sample of 118 middle- and lower-income mothers and their low-birth-weight (LBW) or very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants. The analysis of data demonstrated limited variability in the HOME scale total scores within each income group, and income alone was found to account for 41% of the variance in the sample. These findings raise questions about the effectiveness of the HOME scale in making useful discriminations about family functioning within an income group.
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