Erfassung sozialer Ressourcen bei chronisch Kranken: Entwicklung und erste psychometrische Überprüfung eines egozentrierten Netzwerkgenerators

Abstract

The social network is one of the most significant resources during the course of the rehabilitation. However, there is a lack of short instruments in questionnaire format for the assessment of social relations in the chronically ill. We therefore developed a network generator (NWG), and tested its performance in patients with different diseases during medical rehabilitation. We tested its reliability, validity and acceptance in 882 inpatients participating in medical rehabilitation programs (cancer N=290, musculoskeletal diseases N=292, and psychosomatic diseases N=300). The NWG provides clear information about different aspects of the social network of these subgroups with satisfying psychometric characteristics. The NWG can be applied as short assessment of positive social relationships that, in practice, are important resources during the whole rehabilitation process of the chronically ill.