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Abstract
The purpose of this study is to present the development of the Family Health Status Inventory (FHSI) (Norem, Malia, & Garrison, Citation2001), including estimates of its reliability and validity. The FHSI was developed as a parsimonious self-report, matrix-format, Likert-type assessment to measure the health status of families. The FHSI includes 16 items on which participants report for all family members. Following initial content validity appraisal and principal-components, reliability, and correlational analyses from two studies with different samples, we concluded that we had found support for the reliability and validity of the FHSI.
We thank Rosalie Huisinga Norem and Tahira K. Hira for their assistance. The research was supported in part by the School of Human Ecology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center; the University of Tennessee; and Iowa State University. Approved for publication by the Director of the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station as manuscript number 05-36-0160.