Development of a Social Capital Scale for Use in the Field of Local Public Health Activities

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  • Kawaharada Mariko
    School of Nursing, Sapporo City University Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University of Science
  • Honda Hikaru
    Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University School of Nursing, Sapporo City University
  • Tanaka Rie
    School of Nursing, Sapporo City University
  • Shindo Yukari
    Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University

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  • 地域保健活動の推進に活用できるソーシャル・キャピタル測定尺度の開発
  • チイキ ホケン カツドウ ノ スイシン ニ カツヨウ デキル ソーシャル ・ キャピタル ソクテイ シャクド ノ カイハツ

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<p>Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop a social capital scale for use in the field of local public health, and to measure its reliability and validity.</p><p>Methods: We developed a set of 42 scale items based on an interview survey among 13 public health nurses and 13 local citizens from 5 municipalities. Then we conducted a preliminary questionnaire survey among 199 chief public health nursing officers, and the main questionnaire survey among 1000 citizens in 4 cities and towns by distributing and collecting self-administrative questionnaire by post.</p><p>Results: We excluded 12 items after performing item analysis, and attained optimal solution for 5 factors and 20 items as a result of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. We named the factors as follows: “mutual trust and support among locals”, “friends sharing the same goals”, “affinity with local professionals”, “connections based on living in the same area”, and “relations with neighbors”. Cronbach’s alpha was 0.92, and the correlation coefficient for association with other scales measuring related concepts was 0.4–0.6.</p><p>Conclusion: The social capital scale developed within this research was found to have a certain degree of reliability and validity.</p>

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