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Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Social Vulnerability Index for Use in the Dutch Context

Being able to identify socially frail older adults is essential for designing interventions and policy and for the prediction of health outcomes, both on the level of individual older adults and of the population. The aim of the present study was to adapt the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) to the...

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Autores principales: Bunt, Steven, Steverink, Nardi, Andrew, Melissa K., van der Schans, Cees P., Hobbelen, Hans
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5708026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29135914
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14111387
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author Bunt, Steven
Steverink, Nardi
Andrew, Melissa K.
van der Schans, Cees P.
Hobbelen, Hans
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description Being able to identify socially frail older adults is essential for designing interventions and policy and for the prediction of health outcomes, both on the level of individual older adults and of the population. The aim of the present study was to adapt the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) to the Dutch language and culture for those purposes. A systematic cross-cultural adaptation of the initial Social Vulnerability Index was performed following five steps: initial translation, synthesis of translations, back translation, a Delphi procedure, and a test for face validity and feasibility. The main result of this study is a face-valid 32 item Dutch version of the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI-D) that is feasible in health care and social care settings. The SVI-D is a useful index to measure social frailty in Dutch-language countries and offers a broad, holistic quantification of older people’s social circumstances related to the risk of adverse health outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-57080262017-12-05 Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Social Vulnerability Index for Use in the Dutch Context Bunt, Steven Steverink, Nardi Andrew, Melissa K. van der Schans, Cees P. Hobbelen, Hans Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Being able to identify socially frail older adults is essential for designing interventions and policy and for the prediction of health outcomes, both on the level of individual older adults and of the population. The aim of the present study was to adapt the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) to the Dutch language and culture for those purposes. A systematic cross-cultural adaptation of the initial Social Vulnerability Index was performed following five steps: initial translation, synthesis of translations, back translation, a Delphi procedure, and a test for face validity and feasibility. The main result of this study is a face-valid 32 item Dutch version of the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI-D) that is feasible in health care and social care settings. The SVI-D is a useful index to measure social frailty in Dutch-language countries and offers a broad, holistic quantification of older people’s social circumstances related to the risk of adverse health outcomes. MDPI 2017-11-14 2017-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5708026/ /pubmed/29135914 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14111387 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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