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Sources of Family Annoyance (SOFA): development, reliability, and validity
1School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles 90024-6967.
Abstract:
The Sources of Family Annoyance (SOFA) is a brief questionnaire intended to measure chronic stressors experienced by fathers and mothers in the home. Two scales, Household Negatives and Child Negatives, were derived from factor analysis. Experiment 1 demonstrated that the instrument discriminated a group of parents of psychiatric clinic-referred children from nonreferred parents. Experiment 2 demonstrated that the instrument discriminated mothers who were receiving public assistance from mothers in a community sample. Results suggest that the SOFA is a reliable and valid brief parent stress assessment instrument that may be useful in family-based interventions to reduce stress and improve the course of pediatric illness.
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