Development and validation of a social vulnerabilities survey for medical inpatients

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Our objective was to validate a Social Vulnerabilities Survey that was developed to identify patient barriers in the following domains: (1) salience or priority of health; (2) social support; (3) transportation; and (4) finances.

Design

Cross-sectional psychometric study. Questions for one domain (health salience) were developed de novo while questions for the other domains were derived from national surveys and/or previously validated questionnaires. We tested construct (ie, convergent and discriminative) validity for these new questions through hypothesis testing of correlations between question responses and patient characteristics. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted to determine structural validity of the survey as a whole.

Setting

Patients

SUBMITTER: Tang K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9171274 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature