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      The Duke-UNC Functional Social Support Questionnaire. Measurement of social support in family medicine patients.

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          A 14-item, self-administered, multidimensional, functional social support questionnaire was designed and evaluated on 401 patients attending a family medicine clinic. Patients were selected from randomized time-frame sampling blocks during regular office hours. The population was predominantly white, female, married, and under age 45. Eleven items remained after test-retest reliability was assessed over a 1- to 4-week follow-up period. Factor analysis and item remainder analysis reduced the remaining 11 items to a brief and easy-to-complete two-scale, eight-item functional social support instrument. Construct validity, concurrent validity, and discriminant validity are demonstrated for the two scales (confidant support--five items and affective support--three items). Factor analysis and correlations with other measures of social support suggest that the three remaining items (visits, instrumental support, and praise) are distinct entities that may need further study.

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          Journal
          Med Care
          Medical care
          Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
          0025-7079
          0025-7079
          Jul 1988
          : 26
          : 7
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710.
          Article
          10.1097/00005650-198807000-00006
          3393031
          3621bf06-8787-45cd-afe7-002b0dabb073
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