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Social Support — Updated
| Domain | Sub-Domain | Instrument Name | Description | Citation (Authors) | Language/ Geographic Location |
Population(s) | Details & PDF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access to Resources Scale | Social support and resource items yielded a 25-item Access to Resources scale (α = .86) that consists of three subscales: support from relatives, non-using friends, and neighbors (9 items, α = .80); support from drug users (9 items, α = .85); and support from program staff (7 items, α = .79). | Vazan, P., Mateu-Gelabert, P., Cleland, C. M., Sandoval, M., & Friedman, S. R. (2012). Correlates of staying safe behaviors among long-term injection drug users: psychometric evaluation of the staying safe questionnaire. AIDS and Behavior, 16(6), 1472-1481. |
English |
* Women * Men * People who inject drugs * People who use drugs |
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| Social Support Questionnaire-Short Form (SSQ 6)- Original Scale | A six-item Social Support scale with high internal reliability and correlated highly with the SSQ and similarly to it with personality variables. The research findings accompanying the development of the short form social support measure suggest that perceived social support in adults may be a reflection of early attachment experience. | Sarason, I. G., Sarason, B. R., Shearin, E. N., & Pierce, G. R. (1987). A brief measure of social support: Practical and theoretical implications. Journal of social and personal relationships, 4(4), 497-510. |
English |
* Students |
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| Duke UNC Functional Social Support Questionnaire-Short Form (DUFSS-5) | The Duke-UNC Functional Social Support Questionnaire-Short Form (DUFSS-5) is intended to measure social support in the context of severe medical illness, specifically for palliative care patients or in oncology settings. | Saracino, R., Kolva, E., Rosenfeld, B., & Breitbart, W. (2015). Measuring social support in patients with advanced medical illnesses: An analysis of the Duke–UNC Functional Social Support Questionnaire. Palliative & supportive care, 13(5), 1153-1163. |
English |
* Women * Men * Elderly * Patients |
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| PSS: Perceived Social Support | This instrument measure's the perceived social support among HIV positive women. | Hudson AL, Lee KA, Miramontes H, Portillo CJ. Social interactions, perceived support, and level of distress in HIV-positive women. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care. 2001;12:68-76. |
English |
* Women * HIV-positive |
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| UCLA-SSI: The UCLA Social Support Inventory | This instrument measures received social support among gay and bisexual men at risk for HIV and AIDS. | Schwarzer, R., Dunkel-Schetter, C., & Kemeny, M. (1994). The multidimensional nature of received social support in gay men at risk of HIV infection and AIDS. American Journal of Community Psychology, 22(3), 319-339. |
English |
* Men who have sex with men (MSM) * Bisexual * Men |
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