Validity and Reliability of the Thai Version of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale (FRAS-Thai)
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Objective: To translate the Family Resilience Assessment Scale (FRAS) into Thai and to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Thai version of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale (FRAS-Thai) in both Thai children aged 11 - 18 and their parents.
Methods: This research adopts a descriptive cross-sectional design, wherein the Family Resilience Assessment Scale (FRAS-Thai) underwent a translation process into Thai through conventional forward-backward method. The Thai version underwent scrutiny to ascertain its content validity. Subsequently, the study enrolled a cohort of 130 pairs of parent-child aged 11 - 18, sourced from both a high school in Bangkok and patients aged 13 - 18 from a hospital. The data was collected from July to November 2023.
Results: The FRAS-Thai exhibited 1 robust item-objective congruence (IOC) of 0.75 - 1.00 Internal consistency, as measured by Cronbach’s Alpha, was notably high at 0.95 for the children group and 0.95 for the parent group, underscoring the instrument’s commendable content validity and reliability. In comparison to the Thai family resilience tool, Pearson's correlation analysis unveiled a moderate correlation, with coefficients of 0.69 and 0.68 for the children and the parent groups respectively. Additionally, the correlation between the scores of the FRAS-Thai in the children and parent groups showed a coefficient of 0.38.
Conclusion: The Thai version of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale demonstrated good content validity and reliability. It can be effectively used to assess family resilience in the Thai population, both among children aged 11 - 18 and parents.
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