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Simões, Cristina; Santos, Sofia – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2016
Background: The quality of life (QOL) perceptions reported by adults with intellectual disability (ID) might not reflect their QOL as assessed by support staff or family members. The main purpose of this research was to examine the consistency and agreement between self-report and report-of-others ratings and to analyse if there are predictors for…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Adults, Attitudes, Caregiver Attitudes
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Ayala-Nunes, Lara; Jiménez, Lucía; Hidalgo, Victoria; Dekovic, Maja; Jesus, Saul – Research on Social Work Practice, 2018
Objective: The measurement of Family Feedback on Child Welfare Services (FF-CWS) is gaining prominence as an efficacy indicator and is coherent with concerns about family-centered practice and empowerment. The aim of this study was to develop and validate an instrument that would overcome the scarcity of psychometrically sound measures in this…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Error of Measurement, Validity, Child Welfare
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Oliveira, Paula Salgado; Fearon, R. M. Pasco; Belsky, Jay; Fachada, Inês; Soares, Isabel – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2015
Institutional rearing adversely affects children's development, but the extent to which specific characteristics of the institutional context and the quality of care provided contribute to problematic development remains unclear. In this study, 72 preschoolers institutionalised for at least 6 months were evaluated by their caregiver using the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Institutional Characteristics, Child Development, Preschool Children