Development, validation, and performance of a scale to measure community mobilization

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 157, Issue , 2016, Pages 127-137

  Lippman, Sheri A ^a,e   Neilands, Torsten B ^a   Leslie, Hannah H ^b   Maman, Suzanne ^c   MacPhail, Catherine ^d,e,f   Twine, Rhian ^e   Peacock, Dean ^g   Kahn, Kathleen ^e,h   Pettifor, Audrey ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^g Sonke Gender Justice   (South Africa)

^h UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Community mobilization; Critical consciousness; Measurement; Social cohesion; South Africa

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; HEALTH POLICY; LEADERSHIP; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PLANNING METHOD; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

ADULT; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LEADERSHIP; MOBILIZATION; MODEL; ORGANIZATION; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOUTH AFRICA; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALIDITY; ADOLESCENT; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; DEVICES; FEMALE; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

SOUTH AFRICA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEHAVIOR RATING SCALE; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUTH AFRICA; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84962803002     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.04.002     Document Type: Article

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