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The Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire: the Italian version

BACKGROUND: Resilience focuses on strength under stress, in the context of adversity. Walsh’s theoretical model identifies relational processes that allow families to tackle and overcome critical situations, dividing them into three domains of family function. The aim of this study was to assess res...

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Autores principales: Rocchi, Silvana, Ghidelli, Claudio, Burro, Roberto, Vitacca, Michele, Scalvini, Simonetta, Della Vedova, Anna Maria, Roselli, Gianmarco, Ramponi, Jean-Pierre, Bertolotti, Giorgio
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735988/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29290684
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S147315
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author Rocchi, Silvana
Ghidelli, Claudio
Burro, Roberto
Vitacca, Michele
Scalvini, Simonetta
Della Vedova, Anna Maria
Roselli, Gianmarco
Ramponi, Jean-Pierre
Bertolotti, Giorgio
author_facet Rocchi, Silvana
Ghidelli, Claudio
Burro, Roberto
Vitacca, Michele
Scalvini, Simonetta
Della Vedova, Anna Maria
Roselli, Gianmarco
Ramponi, Jean-Pierre
Bertolotti, Giorgio
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description BACKGROUND: Resilience focuses on strength under stress, in the context of adversity. Walsh’s theoretical model identifies relational processes that allow families to tackle and overcome critical situations, dividing them into three domains of family function. The aim of this study was to assess resilience in families of patients with a chronic disease by adapting and validating the Italian version of the Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire (Walsh-IT). PATIENTS AND METHODS: An Italian adult sample of 421 participants (patients and relatives) was collected with the aim to assess the reliability and validity of the Walsh-IT. Concurrent validity was carried out by comparing this instrument with the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale III (FACES III) administered at the same time as the Walsh-IT. RESULTS: Reliability showed high correlation between repeated measurements. The alpha coefficient was 0.946. Both parallel analysis and minimum average partial criteria suggested that the best number of domains is equal to 3, explaining 50.4% of the total variance. Based on the results obtained from the Rasch analysis, items 10, 11, 16, 22, and 23 have been removed resulting in a short-form questionnaire (Walsh-IT-R) of 26 items with three domains: shared beliefs and support (SBS, α=0.928); family organization and interaction (FOI, α=0.863); and utilization of social resources (USR, α=0.567). The total score of the Walsh-IT-R was strongly correlated with the total score of FACES III Real Family Scale (r=0.68; p<0.0001). CONCLUSION: Results support that the Walsh-IT-R is a valid instrument for the assessment of family resilience in Italy when contending with the challenges of chronic disease. It could be used in pre- and post-assessment in practice effectiveness research, offering a profile of family resilience processes at the start and end of interventions and follow-up.
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spelling pubmed-57359882017-12-29 The Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire: the Italian version Rocchi, Silvana Ghidelli, Claudio Burro, Roberto Vitacca, Michele Scalvini, Simonetta Della Vedova, Anna Maria Roselli, Gianmarco Ramponi, Jean-Pierre Bertolotti, Giorgio Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat Original Research BACKGROUND: Resilience focuses on strength under stress, in the context of adversity. Walsh’s theoretical model identifies relational processes that allow families to tackle and overcome critical situations, dividing them into three domains of family function. The aim of this study was to assess resilience in families of patients with a chronic disease by adapting and validating the Italian version of the Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire (Walsh-IT). PATIENTS AND METHODS: An Italian adult sample of 421 participants (patients and relatives) was collected with the aim to assess the reliability and validity of the Walsh-IT. Concurrent validity was carried out by comparing this instrument with the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale III (FACES III) administered at the same time as the Walsh-IT. RESULTS: Reliability showed high correlation between repeated measurements. The alpha coefficient was 0.946. Both parallel analysis and minimum average partial criteria suggested that the best number of domains is equal to 3, explaining 50.4% of the total variance. Based on the results obtained from the Rasch analysis, items 10, 11, 16, 22, and 23 have been removed resulting in a short-form questionnaire (Walsh-IT-R) of 26 items with three domains: shared beliefs and support (SBS, α=0.928); family organization and interaction (FOI, α=0.863); and utilization of social resources (USR, α=0.567). The total score of the Walsh-IT-R was strongly correlated with the total score of FACES III Real Family Scale (r=0.68; p<0.0001). CONCLUSION: Results support that the Walsh-IT-R is a valid instrument for the assessment of family resilience in Italy when contending with the challenges of chronic disease. It could be used in pre- and post-assessment in practice effectiveness research, offering a profile of family resilience processes at the start and end of interventions and follow-up. Dove Medical Press 2017-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5735988/ /pubmed/29290684 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S147315 Text en © 2017 Rocchi et al. This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed.
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Rocchi, Silvana
Ghidelli, Claudio
Burro, Roberto
Vitacca, Michele
Scalvini, Simonetta
Della Vedova, Anna Maria
Roselli, Gianmarco
Ramponi, Jean-Pierre
Bertolotti, Giorgio
The Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire: the Italian version
title The Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire: the Italian version
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title_short The Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire: the Italian version
title_sort walsh family resilience questionnaire: the italian version
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735988/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29290684
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S147315
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