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Adapting a Brief Measure of the Relationship Dimension in Yup’ik Alaska Native Families
1. Adapting a Brief Measure of the Relationship
Dimension in Yup’ik Alaska Native Families
James Allen
University of Alaska Fairbanks
David Henry
University of Illinois at Chicago
Carlotta Ching Ting Fok
University of Alaska Fairbanks
People Awakening Team
University of Alaska Fairbanks
2. How can we create measures that are:
• culturally
resonant
• responsive to
change
associated with
intervention
3. Family Environment Scale
(FES; Moos & Moos, 1981)
• Our goal: Adapt for Yup’ik adolescents to measure
change in Family Protective Factors in response to
intervention
4. Tools We Used
to Develop a Measure
of Family Relationship
• Collaborative measurement
development
• IRT modeling at the item level
• SEQ modeling at the subscale level
5. Collaborative
measurement
University development
Co-researchers
Yup’ik Yup’ik Individual
Cultural Focus Administration
Experts Groups Cognitive
Interviewing
Community
Co-researchers
Outcome Measurement
Measure Development Pilot 2 Pilot 1
In Study N = 50 N = 50
Intervention N = 450
Feasibility Experts
Study IRT / CFA IRT IRT
Experts
6. Item Revision
• English usage is a dialect – embedded in Yup’ik linguistic
syntax, with different colloquialisms and usages
– Family members rarely become openly angry.
– In our family we are really mad at each other a lot.
– Family members hardly ever loose their temper.
– In our family we lose our tempers a lot.
– Family member try to one up or outdo each other.
– In our family there is a feeling of togetherness.
8. SID (person) - MAP - OCQ (Item)
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10. Quyana
• Elder’s Councils
• Tribal and Planning Councils
• Rural Alaska Public High Schools
• Yupik Regional Coordinating Council
• People Awakening Coordinating Council
• Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation
• National Institutes of Health
– National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the
National Center for Minority Health Disparities (NCMHD) 1RO1 AA 11446-
03, National Center for Research Resources (P20 RR016430, Gerald V.
Mohatt, PI), NIAAA Grants 1R21 AA015541 (Gerald V. Mohatt, PI and
James Allen, Co-I) and 1 R21 AA016098-01 (James Allen, PI, Gerald
Mohatt and John Gonzalez, Co-I), and NCMHD 1R24 MD001626 (Gerald V.
Mohatt, PI, James Allen and John Gonzalez, Co-I), and NCMHD 5R24
MD001626 (James Allen, PI, Gerald V. Mohatt, Co-I)
– A special thank you to the youth and families who participated in Elluam Tungiinun