At HOME in Scotland: validation of the home observation for measurement of the environment inventory

Abstract

This Scottish sample had similar MC-HOME and EA-HOME scores as previously reported in American samples and the HOME scores related strongly to family adversity, supplying a proximal link between social conditions and the environment of children. These results suggest that the HOME Inventory is reliable and has concurrent validity with measures of social adversity in a British sample.

HOME in the Netherlands

“…MC-HOME are consistent with studies on the IT-HOME and the EC-HOME Burston, Puckering, & Kearney, 2005;Han et al, 2004). The internal consistency of the MC-HOME subscales in a U.S. sample ranged from .52 to .80 and was found to be .90 for the total scale.…”

A telephone interview version of the middle childhood HOME Observation Measurement of the Environment

“…The HOME tool is generally considered to have good interrater reliability (Burston et al 2005) with an inter-observer agreement level of 80-90% (Totsika & Sylva 2004). This study showed an agreement level of 73-100% between the telephone HOME and the original HOME.…”

“…It is a further strength of the study that such a large sample was used (n = 77), with a greater sample size than the previous Irish study (n = 35) (Mulligan et al 2013) or the Scottish study (n = 27) (Burston et al 2005). It is a further strength of the study that such a large sample was used (n = 77), with a greater sample size than the previous Irish study (n = 35) (Mulligan et al 2013) or the Scottish study (n = 27) (Burston et al 2005).…”

“…The sum of all items present (1 = present, 0 = absent) generates the total HOME score, with subscales available also. The HOME has been used extensively in clinical and research settings (Totsika & Sylva 2004;Burston et al 2005), with over 650 studies and translations into 15 languages (Caldwell & Bradley 2001). Since then, the Middle Childhood HOME (Bradley et al 1988) and Early Adolescent HOME (Bradley et al 2000) have been developed for 6-to 10-year olds inclusive and 11-to 15-year olds inclusive.…”

Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Children's Well-Child Care and Medical Home

“…[28][29][30] Higher scores are more favorable, with low scores representing an impoverished environment. Interrater reliability and Cronbach's ␣ have both been reported to be .92.…”