Acculturation Scale for Mexican Americans- ASMA

Acculturation Scale for Mexican Americans (ASMA)
Deyo‚ Diehl‚ Hazuda‚ & Stern‚ 1985
مقیاس فرهنگ پذیری مکزیکی - آمریکایی
1.    Some of our patients speak both English and Spanish‚ but many speak only one or the other. To improve our future contacts with you‚ we would like to know what language you prefer to speak.
1 = English‚ 2 = Spanish 3 = Both equally
2.    What language is most often spoken in your home?
1= English‚ 2 = Spanish‚ 3 = Both equally
3.    What was your first language as a child?
1= English‚ 2 = Spanish‚ 3 = Other
4.    Many of our patients have difficulty reading in either English or Spanish. Do you read any English?
1 = Yes‚ anything 2 = Some 3 = Very little 4 = None
سایت روان سنجی: این ابزار بیشتر کاربرد بالینی و مصاحبه ای دارد.
اعتبار: ضریب گاتمن 0.97، ضریب مقیاس پذیری 0.89
نمره گذاری
Question 1-3:  1 point for English and Question 4: 1 point for 1‚ 2‚ or 3
چگونگی دستیابی
This instrument can be found at: http://www.springer.com/978-1-4419-6696-4
منبع و ماخذ برای آگاهی بیشتر
Deyo‚ R. A.‚ Diehl‚ A. K.‚ Hazuda‚ H.‚ & Stern‚ M. P. (1985). A simple language-based scale for Mexican Americans: Validation and application to healthcare research. American Journal of Public Health‚ 75‚ 51–55.
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