Developing and assessing a kin keeping scale with application to identifying central influencers in African American family networks.

ABSTRACT: Promoting family communication about inherited disease risk is an arena in which family systems theory is highly relevant. One family systems' construct that can support promotion of family communication regarding inherited disease risk is the notion of "kin keeping." However, kin keeping and whether it might be capitalized on to encourage family communication about inherited risk has been understudied. The goal of this report was to propose a broadened conceptualization of kin keeping that distinguishes between a structural functional perspective (role conceptualization) and transitional behaviors (skill conceptualization), and to develop and evaluate a scale that would enable this assertion to be tested among a sample of African American community health workers. We developed a scale usi

SUBMITTER: Allen CG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10725405 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature