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- Title
Portuguese Validation of FACES-IV in Adult Children Caregivers Facing Parental Cancer.
- Authors
Pereira, M.; Teixeira, Ricardo
- Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to examine the psychometric properties of the FACES-IV in Portuguese caregivers of cancer patients. In this cross-sectional study, a sample of 214 adult children caregivers of cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, completed FACES-IV, Family Communication Scale (FCS), Family Satisfaction Scale (FSS), and Satisfaction with Social Support Scale (SSSS). Internal consistencies above .70 were found for all FACES-IV scales, except for Enmeshed and Rigid scales, as well as for the FCS, FSS, and SSSS (except for Intimacy). Strong correlations between FACES-IV and the validation scales FCS and FSS were found except for the Enmeshed and Rigid scales. Confirmatory analysis yielded an acceptable model for the six theoretical subscales. The discriminant analysis between problematic and non-problematic family systems showed results similar to the original study. These findings suggest that FACES-IV is a valid measure of family functioning in oncological family caregiving's contexts.
- Subjects
PORTUGAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; ADULT children; ANALYSIS of variance; CANCER patients; CAREGIVERS; CHI-squared test; COMMUNICATION; STATISTICAL correlation; DISCRIMINANT analysis; FACTOR analysis; RESEARCH methodology; MULTIVARIATE analysis; PARENTS; RELIABILITY (Personality trait); RESEARCH evaluation; SCALE analysis (Psychology); FAMILY relations; SOCIAL support; CROSS-sectional method; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Contemporary Family Therapy: An International Journal, 2013, Vol 35, Issue 3, p478
- ISSN
0892-2764
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10591-012-9216-4