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GLLRMs of the SSS for sample 1 (left) and sample 2 (right). Note. The Markov graph nodes represent the item numbers, the exogenous variables, and the latent trait. Disconnected nodes indicate that variables are conditionally independent and partial γ inform the magnitude of the LD and DIF. When LD/DIF was unsubstantial (γ<0.1), the edges were omitted (see S1 Fig).
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In Australia, despite social support increasingly being reported as playing an important role in influencing health outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, measures of social support have not yet been validated for Aboriginal people. The current study aimed to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Social Support Scale in an Abori...
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... The reliability and validity process of our utilized tool, the MSPSS English version developed by Zimet et al., Zimet et al., Canty-Mitchell and Zimet, and Dahlem et al. [1][2][3][4], was followed ( Table 1). There are a few more similar scales, e.g., the Social Support Scale (SSS) [5], the Online Social Support Scale [6], the Family Support Scale (FSS) [7], the Family Resilience Assessment Scale [8], the Family Connectedness Scale [9], the Perceived Support Network Inventory [10], the Sexual Relationship Power Scale [11], and the Social Support Questionnaire -Short Form (SSQ6) [12]. Furthermore, there are different tools to assess social support available at the following link: https://elcentro.sonhs.miami.edu/research/measures-library/socialsupport-relationship-construct/index.html. ...
Background
Adequate community-based or societal collaboration and cooperation are considerably important for the
overall welfare of women and adolescent girls with disabilities. “The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived
Social Support (MSPSS)” has not been evaluated for reliability and validity amid women and adolescent girls
with disabilities in the Bangladeshi context.
Methods
A Bangla-translated form of the MSPSS was constructed, and the survey was conducted among 152 women
and adolescent girls with disabilities who were purposefully recruited from Bogura Sadar and
Chapainawabganj Sadar sub-districts of Bangladesh.
Results
The Cronbach's alpha of the entire scale was 0.868, indicating high internal consistency. Cronbach’s alpha
for the family sub-scale was 0.763, the friends sub-scale was 0.820, and the significant others scale was
0.776. The composite reliability for the family sub-scale was 0.849677, the friends sub-scale was 0.881248,
and the significant others sub-scale was 0.859668. Convergence reliability was established following subscale-wise scores. It affirms the consistency of measurements. The content validity score was >0.62,
following the Lawshe approach. The three-factor model was adopted during confirmatory factor analysis
when the three-factor model run in SPSS Amos (version 21) CFI (comparative fit index) was 0.919.
Conclusions
In Bangladesh, to the best of our knowledge, our study is initially to calculate the perceived societal
assistance of women and adolescent girls with disabilities. We validated the Bangla-translated form of the
MSPSS from the Bangladeshi perspective. Researchers and clinicians may rely on our accurate and validated
MSPSS translation into Bangla when working with this group. Based on our findings, this study endorses
implementing the MSPSS for assessing professed community-based collaboration using the three-factor
model, especially among women and adolescent girls with disabilities.
... 33 This is contrary to the many findings that support prolonged breast feeding among Indigenous Australians for better child health outcomes. Santiago and colleagues demonstrated how social support was characterised among study participants, 34 and the impact of personal control on self-reported health outcomes. 35 The effectiveness of implementing a MI approach to preventing poor oral health among Indigenous children and their families was discussed, 22 with comparisons made with other studies involving MI and the oral health of vulnerable children. ...
Purpose
The South Australian Aboriginal Birth Cohort (SAABC) is a prospective, longitudinal birth cohort established to: (1) estimate Aboriginal child dental disease compared with population estimates; (2) determine the efficacy of an early childhood caries intervention in early versus late infancy; (3) examine if efficacy was sustained over time and; (4) document factors influencing social, behavioural, cognitive, anthropometric, dietary and educational attainment over time.
Participants
The original SAABC comprised 449 women pregnant with an Aboriginal child recruited February 2011 to May 2012. At child age 2 years, 324 (74%) participants were retained, at age 3 years, 324 (74%) participants were retained and at age 5 years, 299 (69%) participants were retained. Fieldwork for follow-up at age 7 years is underway, with funding available for follow-up at age 9 years.
Findings to date
At baseline, 53% of mothers were aged 14–24 years and 72% had high school or less educational attainment. At age 3 years, dental disease experience was higher among children exposed to the intervention later rather than earlier in infancy. The effect was sustained at age 5 years, but rates were still higher than general child population estimates. Experiences of racism were high among mothers, with impacts on both tooth brushing and toothache. Compared with population estimates, levels of self-efficacy and self-rated oral health of mothers at baseline were low.
Future plans
Our data have contributed to a better understanding of the environmental, behavioural, dietary, biological and psychosocial factors contributing to Aboriginal child oral and general health, and social and emotional well-being. This is beneficial in charting the trajectory of cohort participants’ health and well-being overtime, particularly in identifying antecedents of chronic diseases which are highly prevalent among Aboriginal Australians. Funding for continued follow-up of the cohort will be sought.
Trial registration number
ACTRN12611000111976; Post-results.
Objectives:
Arguably, the deficit narrative of oral health inequities, perpetuated by colonial re-search agendas, media and sociopolitical discourse, contributes to oral disease burden and fatalism among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. There remains a need to evolve the way oral health is understood, in a manner that reflects the lived experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
Methods:
This paper proposes decolonising methodologies as a strategy to ensure oral health re-search creates more equitable oral health outcomes and realities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities. Anchored by a critical reflection of the failure of dominant oral health inequity re-search practices to address Indigenous oral health, both in Australia and internationally, we propose five explicit pathways for decolonising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander oral health re-search.
Results:
We argue the need for (1) positionality statements in all re-search endeavours, (2) studies that honour reciprocal relationships through the development of proposals that ask questions and follow models based on Traditional Knowledges, (3) the development of culturally secure and strengths-based data capturing tools, (4) frameworks that address the intersection of multiple axes of oppression in creating inequitable conditions and (5) decolonising knowledge translation techniques.
Conclusion:
Importantly, we recognize that re-search will never be entirely 'decolonised' due to the colonial foundations upheld by academic institutions and society more broadly; however, as oral health re-searchers, we ascertain that there is an ethical compulsion to drive decolonising re-search pursuits that produce equitable oral health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities.
